Reading violent crime statistics

Annual crime rate in Reading postcode area is 30.1 crimes per 1000 people. Compared to the national crime rate, Reading's rate is at 85% as of August 2025.Violent crime makes up 37.1% of all crimes reported in the postcode area. The total number of "violent crime" is 23.5k, and this number has increased by 0.8% when compared year-over-year in the period of August 2024 - July 2025.

Reading postcode areacrime statisticEngland & Wales
30.1 annual crime rate per 1k workday people35.4
85% ratio of national crime rate100%
37.1% share of all crimes34.5%
23.5k crimes reported2.0M
0.8% annual change0.1%

Reading violent crime rate comparison map

Reading violent crime rate comparison map

Reading violent crime rate rank

Crime rate ranking : 22. lowest crime rate out of 99 postcode areas

Reading violent crime rate rank

Reading violent crime rate compared to other areas

The total number of "violent crime" is 23.5k, and this number has increased by 0.8% when compared year-over-year in the period of August 2024 - July 2025. 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 August 2024 - July 2025 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.

+0.8% annual change, crime is increasing

23.5k crimes reported

Reading violent crime rate compared to other areasCrime rate percentage change
Crime rate per 1000 workday people

Reading violent crime volume

Number of crime incidents by month from January 2014 to July 2025.

Reading violent crime volume

Reading violent crime rate

Crime rate per 1000 workday people compared to the national crime rate by year.

Reading violent crime rate

Reading violent crime seasonality

Total number of crimes reported in a given calendar month (1 = January … 12 = December) in the previous five years, i.e. from 2020 till 2024.

Reading violent crime seasonality

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