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Crime and safety

Brighton and Hove council area. Every figure carries its own date.

Brighton and Hove

Police-recorded locations for Brighton and Hove local authority area. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.

Mapped crime over time

September 2024 to August 2026

Brighton and Hove 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: 2,466 mapped crimes in September 2024; 2,771 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 · Brighton and Hove
MonthMapped crimeAnti-social behaviour
September 20242,466441
October 20242,479460
November 20242,396375
December 20242,270352
January 20252,337386
February 20252,220365
March 20252,470507
April 20252,526552
May 20252,587557
June 20252,645605
July 20252,736638
August 20252,523609
September 20252,288464
October 20252,339528
November 20252,132430
December 20252,049374
January 20262,134392
February 20262,057474
March 20262,318654
April 20262,339733
May 20262,548874
June 20262,419770
July 20262,741920
August 20262,771796
Crime categories in the latest complete year

A complete, consecutive 12-month period without an unresolved reporting break is needed before these totals can be shown.

What these numbers include

Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.

Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and records without usable locations are excluded.

Do not compare directly with Scottish council-level recorded crime totals.

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

Publication history: Sussex Police: Crime data not provided for January 2026. The force will provide a data refresh as soon as possible. No explicit later refresh identified in the checked changelog.

Previous crime-publication gaps are not explicitly resolved in the checked changelog for 2026-01. Published rows are retained, but completeness and year-on-year changes are not established.

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

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