Recorded crime
Wolverhampton recorded crime by postcode district
Crimes police recorded in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of each district centre, across 7 Wolverhampton districts. Counts, not rates.
Crimes recorded, July 2026
2,315
Across 7 districts, within about 1 mile of each centre.
- Districts
- 7
- Most recorded
- Violence
data.police.uk, July 2026
Summary
Recorded crime in Wolverhampton: police recorded 2,315 crimes in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of the centre of each of the 7 postcode districts with a published figure. WV6 has the lowest recorded count (117) and WV1 the highest (640). The most often recorded category was violent crime, at 45% 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 Wolverhampton crime counts: a wide gap that mostly reflects footfall
Wolverhampton’s 7 districts with a published figure add up to 2,315 recorded crimes for July 2026, running from 117 in WV6 to 640 in WV1, which says more about where people gather than about where anyone feels at risk.
If you are selling, buyers can find figures like these in a minute, so know your district’s count, be ready to say what a count does and does not mean, and expect the question.
Sell houseA buyer’s best use of this table is to frame questions: violent crime was 45% of what police recorded, so ask whether it is common on the road itself.
Our checklist: see the street on a weekday evening and a weekend, read the police’s street-level map for the postcode, and ask your conveyancer what the seller has to tell you.
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Key figures
Wolverhampton crime counts at a glance
Police records for July 2026. A count near each district centre is not a safety ranking.
Lowest district
117
WV6, crimes recorded
Middle district
288
Median of the districts
Highest district
640
WV1, crimes recorded
Top category
Violence
1,036 of 2,315 crimes
Recorded crime
Wolverhampton crime by category and district
2,315 recorded crimes across 7 districts in July 2026.
By category
What the recorded crimes were
Violent crime was the most recorded category, with 1,036 of 2,315 crimes (45%). It describes the month's police records, not what is likely to happen to you.
See the figures
| Category | Recorded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 1,036 | 45% |
| Shoplifting | 220 | 10% |
| Criminal damage arson | 194 | 8% |
| Public order | 178 | 8% |
| Vehicle crime | 151 | 7% |
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
By district
Wolverhampton districts, lowest recorded count first
Counts run from 117 in WV6 to 640 in WV1. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WV6 | 117 | Violent crime (61) | WV6 area report |
| WV4 | 144 | Violent crime (72) | WV4 area report |
| WV11 | 237 | Violent crime (98) | WV11 area report |
| WV3 | 288 | Violent crime (127) | WV3 area report |
| WV10 | 302 | Violent crime (138) | WV10 area report |
| WV2 | 587 | Violent crime (249) | WV2 area report |
| WV1 | 640 | Violent crime (291) | WV1 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 7 Wolverhampton postcode districts with a published figure for July 2026, police recorded 2,315 crimes in total within roughly a mile of each district centroid. The median district recorded 288.
WV6 has the lowest recorded crime count of the districts listed (117), and WV1 the highest (640).
The spread across the city is wide: the highest-counting district recorded about 5.5 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 45% of all recorded crimes in the month.
Questions, answered
Wolverhampton recorded crime: your questions
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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.
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