East Suffolk local authority 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 East Suffolk local authority area. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
12,825 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 12,681 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
East Suffolk local authority 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: 1,107 mapped crimes in September 2024; 1,030 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
872.81.1k1.3k
September 2024August 2026
The line joins consecutive published observations.
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · East Suffolk
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
1,107
130
October 2024
1,124
92
November 2024
992
90
December 2024
1,012
62
January 2025
963
68
February 2025
1,016
70
March 2025
1,039
116
April 2025
998
117
May 2025
1,035
144
June 2025
1,191
143
July 2025
1,177
140
August 2025
1,027
189
September 2025
1,048
159
October 2025
1,105
144
November 2025
1,008
84
December 2025
1,012
80
January 2026
1,063
92
February 2026
918
131
March 2026
1,052
98
April 2026
1,010
120
May 2026
1,100
141
June 2026
1,184
142
July 2026
1,295
177
August 2026
1,030
141
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · East Suffolk
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
6,234
criminal damage arson
1,523
shoplifting
957
other theft
902
public order
735
burglary
585
vehicle crime
579
other crime
546
drugs
308
possession of weapons
185
bicycle theft
135
robbery
70
theft from the person
66
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.
