West Northamptonshire council area. Every figure carries its own date.
What the recorded figures show, and what they cannot tell us.
Recorded crime and population
A larger population can mean more recorded offences even when the number of offences per resident falls. Read the total and the rate together.
A checked recorded-crime total and matching population rate for this exact council area are not available in this collection yet. The local mapped records below remain a separate measure.
Can we test the population theory over 30 years?
Only where the offence definitions, recording practices and area boundaries are comparable. Changes in reporting, police recording and the types of crime matter too. We do not join incompatible series or invent missing years.
No verified one-to-one current CSP/authority code relationship; aggregate or split geography requires review
2002/03: Series starts after April 2002 recording-standard introduction; not comparable to pre-2002 records.
2013/14: Offence grouping revision; source back-series retained. Recording practice changes also affect comparisons.
2017/18: Burglary classification changed; broad total retained but detailed groups need review.
2023/24: Burglary subcategories and recording-rule changes require interpretation review.
A comparable 30-year crime-and-population trend has not been established for this area.
For example, if offences rose by 10% while population rose by 20%, offences per resident would fall by about 8%. This is an illustration, not a finding about this area.
People commuting or visiting can also affect offences recorded in a place. The resident population is a useful common denominator, but does not count everyone present.
What could help? Follow the types and locations of repeated problems, check residents’ experiences, and assess the response. Area population totals do not identify who commits offences.
Police-recorded locations for West Northamptonshire council area. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
31,410 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 32,246 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
West Northamptonshire council area · mapped crimes
Reviewed figures: September 2024 to August 2026. This reviewed record covers fewer than 30 years, so the chart opens on all of it.
Shown on this chart: 2,729 mapped crimes in September 2024; 2,859 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
2.2k2.6k3.1k
September 2024August 2026
The line joins consecutive published observations.
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · West Northamptonshire
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
2,729
558
October 2024
2,859
585
November 2024
2,664
461
December 2024
2,401
449
January 2025
2,663
483
February 2025
2,317
542
March 2025
2,861
657
April 2025
2,651
712
May 2025
2,636
755
June 2025
2,790
798
July 2025
2,933
889
August 2025
2,742
908
September 2025
2,625
641
October 2025
2,681
714
November 2025
2,461
594
December 2025
2,468
559
January 2026
2,512
653
February 2026
2,253
647
March 2026
2,516
770
April 2026
2,499
844
May 2026
2,738
1,037
June 2026
2,773
971
July 2026
3,025
1,046
August 2026
2,859
1,036
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · West Northamptonshire
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
13,676
shoplifting
3,203
other theft
2,476
criminal damage arson
2,357
public order
2,353
vehicle crime
2,213
burglary
1,674
drugs
1,148
other crime
712
robbery
697
possession of weapons
491
bicycle theft
262
theft from the person
148
What these numbers include
Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.
Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and unusable locations excluded.
An empty ward count means no mapped rows in the complete required force files; it does not prove that no crime occurred.
These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.
Missing ward-months invalidate totals and changes. Busy centres attract visitors, so residential population is not a measure of the number of people exposed.
