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Crime and safety: King's Lynn and West Norfolk

King's Lynn and West Norfolk local authority area. Every figure carries its own date.

What the recorded figures show, and what they cannot tell us.

Recorded crime and population

A larger population can mean more recorded offences even when the number of offences per resident falls. Read the total and the rate together.

A checked recorded-crime total and matching population rate for this exact council area are not available in this collection yet. The local mapped records below remain a separate measure.

Can we test the population theory over 30 years?

Only where the offence definitions, recording practices and area boundaries are comparable. Changes in reporting, police recording and the types of crime matter too. We do not join incompatible series or invent missing years.

No observation has yet passed the count, geography and population checks for display.

  • 2002/03: Series starts after April 2002 recording-standard introduction; not comparable to pre-2002 records.
  • 2013/14: Offence grouping revision; source back-series retained. Recording practice changes also affect comparisons.
  • 2017/18: Burglary classification changed; broad total retained but detailed groups need review.
  • 2023/24: Burglary subcategories and recording-rule changes require interpretation review.

A comparable 30-year crime-and-population trend has not been established for this area.

For example, if offences rose by 10% while population rose by 20%, offences per resident would fall by about 8%. This is an illustration, not a finding about this area.

People commuting or visiting can also affect offences recorded in a place. The resident population is a useful common denominator, but does not count everyone present.

What could help? Follow the types and locations of repeated problems, check residents’ experiences, and assess the response. Area population totals do not identify who commits offences.

Local issues and proposed responses →

Police-recorded locations for King's Lynn and West Norfolk local authority area. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.

9,176 mapped crimes

September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 9,187 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.

Mapped crime over time

September 2024 to August 2026

King's Lynn and West Norfolk local authority area · mapped crimes

Reviewed figures: September 2024 to August 2026. This reviewed record covers fewer than 30 years, so the chart opens on all of it.

Shown on this chart: 759 mapped crimes in September 2024; 846 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.

The line joins consecutive published observations.

Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · King's Lynn and West Norfolk
MonthMapped crimeAnti-social behaviour
September 2024759112
October 2024810116
November 202479294
December 2024714112
January 202574282
February 202561993
March 2025810116
April 2025777111
May 2025775121
June 2025827111
July 2025783119
August 2025779119
September 202577098
October 202570589
November 202573263
December 202567066
January 202670063
February 202663981
March 202675079
April 2026771119
May 2026801141
June 2026865107
July 2026927115
August 2026846112
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · King's Lynn and West Norfolk
CategoryMapped crimes
violent crime4,463
criminal damage arson933
shoplifting882
public order708
other theft694
drugs369
burglary296
other crime291
vehicle crime229
possession of weapons113
bicycle theft104
robbery48
theft from the person46
What these numbers include

Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.

Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and unusable locations excluded.

An empty ward count means no mapped rows in the complete required force files; it does not prove that no crime occurred.

These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.

Missing ward-months invalidate totals and changes. Busy centres attract visitors, so residential population is not a measure of the number of people exposed.

Police data and method →

What could improve local safety →