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Burglary in Birmingham

12 months to June 2026

5.7per 1,000 residents

Police recorded 6,702 burglary offences in Birmingham in the 12 months to June 2026, down 8.9% (654) on the previous 12 months. That is 5.7 per 1,000 residents against 3.6 for England and Wales.

  1. Home Office · data.police.uk
  2. street-level crime archive, category “Burglary
  3. local authority via LSOA lookup
  4. population: ONS mid-2025 estimate, 1,176,960

Monthly, December 2010 to June 2026

Monthly recorded offences: December 2010 to June 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour05001k2010201520202025December 2010: 888 offencesJanuary 2011: 1,140 offencesFebruary 2011: 974 offencesMarch 2011: 987 offencesApril 2011: 898 offencesMay 2011: 978 offencesJune 2011: 883 offencesJuly 2011: 844 offencesAugust 2011: 988 offencesSeptember 2011: 824 offencesOctober 2011: 888 offencesNovember 2011: 1,063 offencesDecember 2011: 953 offencesJanuary 2012: 954 offencesFebruary 2012: 813 offencesMarch 2012: 913 offencesApril 2012: 783 offencesMay 2012: 746 offencesJune 2012: 774 offencesJuly 2012: 812 offencesAugust 2012: 769 offencesSeptember 2012: 713 offencesOctober 2012: 860 offencesNovember 2012: 840 offencesDecember 2012: 797 offencesJanuary 2013: 855 offencesFebruary 2013: 778 offencesMarch 2013: 712 offencesApril 2013: 731 offencesMay 2013: 728 offencesJune 2013: 703 offencesJuly 2013: 715 offencesAugust 2013: 791 offencesSeptember 2013: 742 offencesOctober 2013: 793 offencesNovember 2013: 767 offencesDecember 2013: 763 offencesJanuary 2014: 814 offencesFebruary 2014: 741 offencesMarch 2014: 761 offencesApril 2014: 754 offencesMay 2014: 786 offencesJune 2014: 699 offencesJuly 2014: 730 offencesAugust 2014: 851 offencesSeptember 2014: 657 offencesOctober 2014: 701 offencesNovember 2014: 777 offencesDecember 2014: 735 offencesJanuary 2015: 708 offencesFebruary 2015: 616 offencesMarch 2015: 678 offencesApril 2015: 628 offencesMay 2015: 697 offencesJune 2015: 577 offencesJuly 2015: 608 offencesAugust 2015: 578 offencesSeptember 2015: 550 offencesOctober 2015: 700 offencesNovember 2015: 821 offencesDecember 2015: 751 offencesJanuary 2016: 764 offencesFebruary 2016: 723 offencesMarch 2016: 781 offencesApril 2016: 742 offencesMay 2016: 664 offencesJune 2016: 635 offencesJuly 2016: 676 offencesAugust 2016: 817 offencesSeptember 2016: 852 offencesOctober 2016: 905 offencesNovember 2016: 1,041 offencesDecember 2016: 867 offencesJanuary 2017: 1,065 offencesFebruary 2017: 864 offencesMarch 2017: 957 offencesApril 2017: 816 offencesMay 2017: 816 offencesJune 2017: 878 offencesJuly 2017: 846 offencesAugust 2017: 877 offencesSeptember 2017: 1,008 offencesOctober 2017: 910 offencesNovember 2017: 1,095 offencesDecember 2017: 985 offencesJanuary 2018: 1,205 offencesFebruary 2018: 1,000 offencesMarch 2018: 1,033 offencesApril 2018: 866 offencesMay 2018: 844 offencesJune 2018: 1,000 offencesJuly 2018: 1,002 offencesAugust 2018: 982 offencesSeptember 2018: 1,035 offencesOctober 2018: 1,193 offencesNovember 2018: 1,295 offencesDecember 2018: 1,158 offencesJanuary 2019: 1,002 offencesFebruary 2019: 1,005 offencesMarch 2019: 982 offencesApril 2019: 919 offencesMay 2019: 785 offencesJune 2019: 769 offencesJuly 2019: 856 offencesAugust 2019: 772 offencesSeptember 2019: 757 offencesOctober 2019: 825 offencesNovember 2019: 974 offencesDecember 2019: 1,006 offencesJanuary 2020: 959 offencesFebruary 2020: 834 offencesMarch 2020: 746 offencesApril 2020: 584 offencesMay 2020: 498 offencesJune 2020: 570 offencesJuly 2020: 649 offencesAugust 2020: 737 offencesSeptember 2020: 712 offencesOctober 2020: 823 offencesNovember 2020: 868 offencesDecember 2020: 746 offencesJanuary 2021: 702 offencesFebruary 2021: 631 offencesMarch 2021: 677 offencesApril 2021: 645 offencesMay 2021: 659 offencesJune 2021: 656 offencesJuly 2021: 705 offencesAugust 2021: 747 offencesSeptember 2021: 731 offencesOctober 2021: 869 offencesNovember 2021: 932 offencesDecember 2021: 878 offencesJanuary 2022: 913 offencesFebruary 2022: 752 offencesMarch 2022: 889 offencesApril 2022: 738 offencesMay 2022: 708 offencesJune 2022: 767 offencesJuly 2022: 737 offencesAugust 2022: 764 offencesSeptember 2022: 857 offencesOctober 2022: 825 offencesNovember 2022: 817 offencesDecember 2022: 796 offencesJanuary 2023: 806 offencesFebruary 2023: 733 offencesMarch 2023: 787 offencesApril 2023: 646 offencesMay 2023: 654 offencesJune 2023: 687 offencesJuly 2023: 690 offencesAugust 2023: 754 offencesSeptember 2023: 736 offencesOctober 2023: 751 offencesNovember 2023: 716 offencesDecember 2023: 778 offencesJanuary 2024: 832 offencesFebruary 2024: 604 offencesMarch 2024: 589 offencesApril 2024: 620 offencesMay 2024: 633 offencesJune 2024: 623 offencesJuly 2024: 651 offencesAugust 2024: 624 offencesSeptember 2024: 647 offencesOctober 2024: 732 offencesNovember 2024: 702 offencesDecember 2024: 663 offencesJanuary 2025: 590 offencesFebruary 2025: 581 offencesMarch 2025: 532 offencesApril 2025: 563 offencesMay 2025: 522 offencesJune 2025: 549 offencesJuly 2025: 484 offencesAugust 2025: 576 offencesSeptember 2025: 539 offencesOctober 2025: 645 offencesNovember 2025: 634 offencesDecember 2025: 578 offencesJanuary 2026: 559 offencesFebruary 2026: 512 offencesMarch 2026: 554 offencesApril 2026: 504 offencesMay 2026: 581 offencesJune 2026: 536 offences

Offences recorded in this category each month, from the street-level archivePublished valueProvisional or revisedLatestShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value

Each year since 2011

Year toOffencesPer 1,000Population year
June 20116,748 (partial)
June 201210,5439.72012
June 20139,2988.52013
June 20149,1268.32014
June 20158,3557.52015
June 20168,3177.42016
June 201710,5549.32017
June 201811,66910.22018
June 201912,12710.52019
June 20209,3818.22020
June 20218,5057.42021
June 20229,6298.32022
June 20239,1097.82023
June 20248,3267.02024
June 20257,3566.22025
June 20266,7025.72025

What this measures

Offences where a person enters a building as a trespasser with intent to steal or commit another offence; residential and non-residential burglary are both included in this police.uk category.

Police-recorded crime counts offences reported to and recorded by the police. It is affected by whether people report crime and by changes in police recording practice, so it does not measure all crime that happens. The Crime Survey for England and Wales is the better guide to long-term trends in the crimes it covers. Police recorded crime is not designated as National Statistics. A higher recorded rate does not mean an area is more dangerous.

Other categories in Birmingham

Every local authority ranked by burglary rate · All recorded crime in Birmingham