Recorded crime
Newcastle recorded crime by postcode district
Crimes police recorded in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of each district centre, across 10 Newcastle districts. Counts, not rates.
Crimes recorded, July 2026
4,148
Across 10 districts, within about 1 mile of each centre.
- Districts
- 10
- Most recorded
- Violence
data.police.uk, July 2026
Summary
Recorded crime in Newcastle: police recorded 4,148 crimes in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of the centre of each of the 10 postcode districts with a published figure. NE13 has the lowest recorded count (46) and NE1 the highest (1,165). The most often recorded category was violent crime, at 25% of the month's recorded crimes. These are counts, not rates: a district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one on footfall alone.
Data from data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026.
Read this first
These are counts, not rates. data.police.uk street-level crime API publishes how many crimes were recorded near a point; it publishes no population figure to divide by. A district with a station, shops and bars will record more crime than a residential one because more people pass through it, not necessarily because residents are more likely to be a victim. Recorded crime is also only crime that was reported and recorded, and reporting rates vary by crime type and by area.
Use this to see the shape of a city and to prompt better questions, not to decide that one district is good and another bad.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on Newcastle crime counts: a wide gap that mostly reflects footfall
Newcastle’s 10 districts with a published figure add up to 4,148 recorded crimes for July 2026, from 46 in NE13 to 1,165 in NE1, a gap that wide mostly tracks footfall, shops and nightlife rather than where is pleasant to live.
If you are selling here, a buyer worried by a number is better served by facts about your street than by reassurance, so have them ready.
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Key figures
Newcastle crime counts at a glance
Police records for July 2026. A count near each district centre is not a safety ranking.
Lowest district
46
NE13, crimes recorded
Middle district
326
Median of the districts
Highest district
1,165
NE1, crimes recorded
Top category
Violence
1,048 of 4,148 crimes
Recorded crime
Newcastle crime by category and district
4,148 recorded crimes across 10 districts in July 2026.
By category
What the recorded crimes were
Violent crime was the most recorded category, with 1,048 of 4,148 crimes (25%). It describes the month's police records, not what is likely to happen to you.
See the figures
| Category | Recorded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 1,048 | 25% |
| Anti social behaviour | 809 | 20% |
| Shoplifting | 732 | 18% |
| Criminal damage arson | 299 | 7% |
| Public order | 288 | 7% |
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
By district
Newcastle districts, lowest recorded count first
Counts run from 46 in NE13 to 1,165 in NE1. Each row is one postcode district: how many crimes police recorded within about a mile of its centre.
See the figures
| District | Recorded crimes | Most recorded category | Area data |
|---|---|---|---|
| NE13 | 46 | Anti social behaviour (16) | NE13 area report |
| NE15 | 136 | Anti social behaviour (39) | NE15 area report |
| NE7 | 188 | Shoplifting (53) | NE7 area report |
| NE3 | 209 | Violent crime (57) | NE3 area report |
| NE12 | 210 | Shoplifting (66) | NE12 area report |
| NE5 | 326 | Violent crime (90) | NE5 area report |
| NE4 | 590 | Violent crime (202) | NE4 area report |
| NE6 | 618 | Shoplifting (150) | NE6 area report |
| NE2 | 660 | Shoplifting (169) | NE2 area report |
| NE1 | 1,165 | Violent crime (315) | NE1 area report |
Districts with no figure published for July 2026 are left out rather than shown as zero: a force not having published yet is not the same fact as no crime.
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
Reading the numbers
What the numbers show
Across the 10 Newcastle postcode districts with a published figure for July 2026, police recorded 4,148 crimes in total within roughly a mile of each district centroid. The median district recorded 268.
NE13 has the lowest recorded crime count of the districts listed (46), and NE1 the highest (1,165).
The spread across the city is wide: the highest-counting district recorded about 25.3 times as many crimes as the lowest. Much of a gap that size reflects what is in the radius: a city-centre district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one before any difference in how people behave.
The most frequently recorded category across these districts was violent crime, at 25% of all recorded crimes in the month.
Questions, answered
Newcastle recorded crime: your questions
How many crimes were recorded in Newcastle?
Which Newcastle districts record the fewest crimes?
What is the most commonly recorded crime in Newcastle?
Why does this page not rank Newcastle districts by crime rate?
Source and method
Where these figures come from
data.police.uk street-level crime API (API documentation), month 2026-07, one request per district at its centroid, ~1 mile radius. England and Wales only. Data.police.uk does not carry Police Scotland or PSNI. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Crime locations published by police forces are snapped to anonymised map points to protect victims, so a point is never an exact address. A guide is only generated for a city where at least 5 of its districts have a published figure.
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