South East shoplifting crime statistics

Annual crime rate in South East region is 9.3 crimes per 1000 people. Compared to the national crime rate, South East's rate is at 107% as of August 2025.Shoplifting crime makes up 9.9% of all crimes reported in the region. The total number of "shoplifting crime" is 78.5k, and this number has increased by 9.6% when compared year-over-year in the period of August 2024 - July 2025.

South East regioncrime statisticEngland & Wales
9.3 annual crime rate per 1k workday people8.7
107% ratio of national crime rate100%
9.9% share of all crimes8.5%
78.5k crimes reported487k
9.6% annual change11.0%

South East shoplifting crime rate comparison map

South East shoplifting crime rate comparison map
CountyCrime rate vs. ENG & WLS rateCrime rate per 1000 workday peopleTotal number of crimes
Berkshire103%97751
Buckinghamshire96%86107
East Sussex174%1511523
Hampshire96%814655
Isle of Wight93%81094
Kent117%1016799
Oxfordshire101%95835
Surrey62%55965
West Sussex127%118786

South East shoplifting crime rate rank

Crime rate ranking : 4. lowest crime rate out of 9 regions

South East shoplifting crime rate rank

South East shoplifting crime rate compared to other regions

The total number of "shoplifting crime" is 78.5k, and this number has increased by 9.6% when compared year-over-year in the period of August 2024 - July 2025. 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 August 2024 - July 2025 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.

+9.6% annual change, crime is increasing

78.5k crimes reported

South East shoplifting crime rate compared to other regionsCrime rate percentage change
Crime rate per 1000 workday people

South East shoplifting crime volume

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

South East shoplifting crime volume

South East shoplifting crime rate

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

South East shoplifting crime rate

South East shoplifting 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.

South East shoplifting crime seasonality

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