South Hams 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 verified one-to-one current CSP/authority code relationship; aggregate or split geography requires review
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.
Police-recorded locations for South Hams local authority area. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
3,885 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 3,588 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
South Hams 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: 286 mapped crimes in September 2024; 376 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
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September 2024August 2026
The line joins consecutive published observations.
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · South Hams
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
286
59
October 2024
268
46
November 2024
281
48
December 2024
264
35
January 2025
306
41
February 2025
289
55
March 2025
267
59
April 2025
310
55
May 2025
300
72
June 2025
278
70
July 2025
389
64
August 2025
350
78
September 2025
315
59
October 2025
297
56
November 2025
267
47
December 2025
263
31
January 2026
333
26
February 2026
321
23
March 2026
300
27
April 2026
307
34
May 2026
335
55
June 2026
337
35
July 2026
434
38
August 2026
376
44
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · South Hams
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
1,977
other theft
506
criminal damage arson
401
public order
302
shoplifting
265
burglary
126
other crime
85
vehicle crime
78
drugs
61
possession of weapons
44
theft from the person
15
robbery
13
bicycle theft
12
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.
