South East robbery crime statistics

Annual crime rate in South East region is 0.6 crimes per 1000 people. Compared to the national crime rate, South East's rate is at 49% as of March 2025.Robbery crime makes up 0.7% of all crimes reported in the region. The total number of "robbery crime" is 5.3k, and this number has decreased by 2.5% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2024 - February 2025.

South East region	crime statistic	England & Wales
0.6	annual crime rate per 1k workday people	1.3
49%	ratio of national crime rate	100%
0.7%	share of all crimes	1.3%
5.3k	crimes reported	71.4k
-2.5%	annual change	-2.3%

South East robbery crime rate comparison map

	Crime rate vs. ENG & WLS rate	Crime rate per 1000 workday people	Total number of crimes
Berkshire	71%	1	784
Buckinghamshire	72%	1	668
East Sussex	51%	1	489
Hampshire	44%	1	974
Isle of Wight	26%	0	45
Kent	46%	1	973
Oxfordshire	47%	1	397
Surrey	36%	0	509
West Sussex	43%	1	436

South East robbery crime rate rank

Crime rate ranking : 2. lowest crime rate out of 9 regions

South East robbery crime rate compared to other regions

The total number of "robbery crime" is 5.3k, and this number has decreased by 2.5% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2024 - February 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 March 2024 - February 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.

-2.5% annual change, crime is declining

5.3k crimes reported