Annual crime rate in South East region is 8.3 crimes per 1000 workday people as of April 2024. Compared to the national crime rate, South East's rate is at 104%. Criminal damage and arson crime makes up 8.6% of all crimes reported in the region. The total number of "criminal damage and arson crime" is 70.2k, and this number has decreased by 6.2% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024.
| South East region | crime metric | England & Wales |
|---|---|---|
| 8.3 | annual crime rate per 1k workday people | 8 |
| 104% | ratio of national crime rate | 100% |
| 8.6% | share of all crimes | 7.8% |
| 70.2k | crimes reported | 446k |
| -6.2% | annual change | -7.0% |
| County | Crime rate vs. ENG & WLS rate | Crime rate per 1000 workday people | Total number of crimes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkshire | 88% | 7 | 6106 | |
| Buckinghamshire | 91% | 7 | 5306 | |
| East Sussex | 120% | 10 | 7263 | |
| Hampshire | 96% | 8 | 13325 | |
| Isle of Wight | 105% | 8 | 1129 | |
| Kent | 146% | 12 | 19173 | |
| Oxfordshire | 76% | 6 | 4011 | |
| Surrey | 82% | 7 | 7269 | |
| West Sussex | 104% | 8 | 6580 | |
Criminal damage and arson crime rate is 8.3 crimes reported per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 4. lowest crime rate out of 8 England and Wales' regions.
The total number of "criminal damage and arson crime" is 70.2k, and this number has decreased by 6.2% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024. In the graph below, region are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the region crime rate between March 2023 - February 2024 to the region 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 region.
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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