Recorded Crime in Middlewich

Local police force: Cheshire
Crime figures for CRDP area Congleton.
Population: 92,000
Number of households: 38,000

Recorded crime for six key offences

	2005-06	2006-07	% Change
Violence against the person	879	896	1.93
Sexual offences	41	51	24.39
Robbery	17	30	76.47
Burglary of a dwelling	343	270	-21.28
Theft of a vehicle	149	162	8.72
Theft from a vehicle	521	464	-10.94

Reported crime per 1,000 population 2006-07

	Local	UK	Difference
Violence against the person	9.76	19.28	-9.52
Sexual offences	0.56	1.06	-0.5
Robbery	0.33	1.86	-1.53
Burglary of a dwelling	2.94	5.47	-2.53
Theft of a vehicle	1.76	3.61	-1.85
Theft from a vehicle	5.05	9.34	-4.29

Key

Graph: Red bar is local crime, black bar is national crime.

Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP): a partnership of police, local councils and other local agencies and organisations tackling crime and disorder in your local area.

The figures shown are a combination of police recorded crime figures and data collected by the British Crime Survey (BCS). All reports of incidents, whether from victims, witnesses or third parties, and whether crime-related or not, result in the registration of an incident report by the police. An incident is recorded as a crime if, on the balance of probability, the circumstances as reported amount to a crime defined by law and there is no credible evidence to the contrary.

Data from the Home Office © Crown Copyright 2007