Annual crime rate in Luton postcode area is 5.6 crimes per 1000 workday people as of April 2024. Compared to the national crime rate, Luton's rate is at 78%. Shoplifting crime makes up 5.4% of all crimes reported in the postcode area. The total number of "shoplifting crime" is 1.8k, and this number has increased by 9.6% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024.
| Luton postcode area | crime metric | England & Wales |
|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | annual crime rate per 1k workday people | 7.2 |
| 78% | ratio of national crime rate | 100% |
| 5.4% | share of all crimes | 7.0% |
| 1.8k | crimes reported | 403k |
| 9.6% | annual change | 31.5% |
Shoplifting crime rate is 5.6 crimes reported per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 18. lowest crime rate out of 95 England and Wales' postcode areas.
The total number of "shoplifting crime" is 1.8k, and this number has increased by 9.6% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024. In the graph below, postcode area are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the postcode area crime rate between March 2023 - February 2024 to the postcode area crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes reported. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes reported in the postcode area.
Crime rate percentage changeNumber of crime incidents by month from January 2011 to February 2024.
Annual crime rate per 1000 workday people
Total number of crimes reported in a given calendar month (1 = January … 12 = December) in the previous five years, i.e. from 2019 till 2023.
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