West Devon 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 West Devon local authority area. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
2,369 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 2,200 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
West Devon 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: 172 mapped crimes in September 2024; 191 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 · West Devon
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
172
23
October 2024
179
36
November 2024
176
34
December 2024
196
18
January 2025
175
37
February 2025
156
26
March 2025
189
33
April 2025
165
30
May 2025
189
32
June 2025
184
22
July 2025
221
52
August 2025
198
51
September 2025
166
30
October 2025
243
32
November 2025
186
36
December 2025
201
23
January 2026
181
9
February 2026
188
9
March 2026
211
23
April 2026
193
16
May 2026
193
13
June 2026
171
16
July 2026
245
19
August 2026
191
26
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · West Devon
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
1,253
criminal damage arson
277
public order
207
other theft
203
shoplifting
101
vehicle crime
97
other crime
72
burglary
66
drugs
48
possession of weapons
27
theft from the person
7
robbery
7
bicycle theft
4
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.
