Crime in York
Thinking about York? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of York, North Yorkshire, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try leeds, newcastle, manchester too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near York centre
Live crime data for York isn't available right now. Try the crime checker with a postcode.
This is the recorded crime around the centre of York. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is York a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of York for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the York crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of York?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of York. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.