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Police force area

Recorded crime: Greater Manchester Police

12 months to August 2022 · 1 of 12 months supplied

—recorded offences per 1,000 residents

Police recorded 14 offences in the Greater Manchester Police area in the 12 months to August 2022.

  1. Home Office · data.police.uk
  2. street-level crime archive
  3. force
  4. population: ONS mid-2022 estimate, 2,916,811

Data ends August 2022. The force has not supplied street-level data to data.police.uk since then, so the figures on this page are the last complete year available and are not comparable with other areas’ current figures. The official ONS force-area tables below, where present, are current.

Data not supplied by the force for 83 of 187 months (July 2019, August 2019, September 2019, October 2019, November 2019, December 2019, …). Totals and rates for windows that include those months are understated and are marked as partial.

Since 2011

Recorded offences per 1,000 residents: Year to June 2012 to Year to June 2019CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservative0501002012201420162018Year to June 2012: 121 per 1,000 residents · 326,660 offences · population mid-2012Year to June 2013: 114.3 per 1,000 residents · 310,277 offences · population mid-2013Year to June 2014: 115.9 per 1,000 residents · 316,750 offences · population mid-2014Year to June 2015: 121.7 per 1,000 residents · 335,601 offences · population mid-2015Year to June 2016: 124.5 per 1,000 residents · 346,547 offences · population mid-2016Year to June 2017: 141.1 per 1,000 residents · 395,792 offences · population mid-2017Year to June 2018: 143.8 per 1,000 residents · 405,982 offences · population mid-2018Year to June 2019: 136.1 per 1,000 residents · 387,623 offences · population mid-2019
Each year to June, complete years only. Areas are today's boundaries throughout.Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value

Monthly trend

Monthly recorded crime: December 2010 to August 2022CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservative010k20k30k2010201220142016201820202022December 2010: 25,968 offencesJanuary 2011: 29,267 offencesFebruary 2011: 28,319 offencesMarch 2011: 32,842 offencesApril 2011: 32,551 offencesMay 2011: 30,476 offencesJune 2011: 29,774 offencesJuly 2011: 31,621 offencesAugust 2011: 30,901 offencesSeptember 2011: 28,342 offencesOctober 2011: 29,963 offencesNovember 2011: 27,781 offencesDecember 2011: 23,911 offencesJanuary 2012: 24,548 offencesFebruary 2012: 24,223 offencesMarch 2012: 28,091 offencesApril 2012: 24,920 offencesMay 2012: 27,114 offencesJune 2012: 25,245 offencesJuly 2012: 27,504 offencesAugust 2012: 27,186 offencesSeptember 2012: 24,827 offencesOctober 2012: 27,169 offencesNovember 2012: 25,261 offencesDecember 2012: 23,227 offencesJanuary 2013: 25,382 offencesFebruary 2013: 23,393 offencesMarch 2013: 25,770 offencesApril 2013: 25,925 offencesMay 2013: 26,831 offencesJune 2013: 27,802 offencesJuly 2013: 30,023 offencesAugust 2013: 29,615 offencesSeptember 2013: 25,448 offencesOctober 2013: 27,538 offencesNovember 2013: 25,192 offencesDecember 2013: 24,466 offencesJanuary 2014: 23,738 offencesFebruary 2014: 22,509 offencesMarch 2014: 26,288 offencesApril 2014: 26,111 offencesMay 2014: 27,647 offencesJune 2014: 28,175 offencesJuly 2014: 30,534 offencesAugust 2014: 27,772 offencesSeptember 2014: 27,821 offencesOctober 2014: 28,761 offencesNovember 2014: 27,387 offencesDecember 2014: 24,627 offencesJanuary 2015: 25,221 offencesFebruary 2015: 25,403 offencesMarch 2015: 28,245 offencesApril 2015: 29,882 offencesMay 2015: 29,851 offencesJune 2015: 30,097 offencesJuly 2015: 30,356 offencesAugust 2015: 30,386 offencesSeptember 2015: 28,498 offencesOctober 2015: 30,925 offencesNovember 2015: 28,140 offencesDecember 2015: 27,206 offencesJanuary 2016: 27,007 offencesFebruary 2016: 26,422 offencesMarch 2016: 28,516 offencesApril 2016: 28,258 offencesMay 2016: 30,722 offencesJune 2016: 30,111 offencesJuly 2016: 31,255 offencesAugust 2016: 30,850 offencesSeptember 2016: 31,064 offencesOctober 2016: 34,709 offencesNovember 2016: 31,122 offencesDecember 2016: 32,079 offencesJanuary 2017: 31,670 offencesFebruary 2017: 30,784 offencesMarch 2017: 35,094 offencesApril 2017: 34,878 offencesMay 2017: 35,890 offencesJune 2017: 36,397 offencesJuly 2017: 37,480 offencesAugust 2017: 35,658 offencesSeptember 2017: 32,768 offencesOctober 2017: 35,990 offencesNovember 2017: 34,052 offencesDecember 2017: 31,233 offencesJanuary 2018: 31,774 offencesFebruary 2018: 29,609 offencesMarch 2018: 33,434 offencesApril 2018: 34,120 offencesMay 2018: 35,478 offencesJune 2018: 34,386 offencesJuly 2018: 35,333 offencesAugust 2018: 32,184 offencesSeptember 2018: 30,956 offencesOctober 2018: 32,838 offencesNovember 2018: 32,672 offencesDecember 2018: 30,377 offencesJanuary 2019: 31,063 offencesFebruary 2019: 30,117 offencesMarch 2019: 33,936 offencesApril 2019: 32,703 offencesMay 2019: 33,386 offencesJune 2019: 32,058 offencesAugust 2022: 14 offences
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Official figures for this area

Published in the official force-area tables. These are the figures to cite; archive-based numbers above are built from street-level records and may differ.

SeriesLatestA year earlierPublished
Arrests for notifiable offencesYear ending March 2025 · arrests3,976—2026-08-19
Homicides (Homicide Index)Year ending March 2025 · offences2733Year ending March 2025
Offences involving a knife or sharp instrumentYear ending March 2026 · offences2,8553,425Year ending March 2026
Police officers (full-time equivalent)Year ending March 2026 · officers (FTE)8,2348,112As at 31 March 2026
Police officers per 100,000 populationYear ending March 2026 · officers per 100,000 population274—As at 31 March 2026
Criminal damage and arson (police-recorded)Year ending March 2026 · offences25,30626,402Year ending March 2026
Drug offences (police-recorded)Year ending March 2026 · offences19,60815,561Year ending March 2026
Possession of weapons (police-recorded)Year ending March 2026 · offences5,2054,892Year ending March 2026
Public order offences (police-recorded)Year ending March 2026 · offences33,29835,998Year ending March 2026
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud)Year ending March 2026 · offences per 1,000 population103.7—Year ending March 2026
Robbery (police-recorded)Year ending March 2026 · offences4,5654,563Year ending March 2026
Sexual offences (police-recorded)Year ending March 2026 · offences12,75112,067Year ending March 2026
Theft offences (police-recorded)Year ending March 2026 · offences76,09985,174Year ending March 2026
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud)Year ending March 2026 · offences312,081318,647Year ending March 2026
Violence against the person (police-recorded)Year ending March 2026 · offences125,640124,803Year ending March 2026
Homicides by police force area: Year ending March 2015 to Year ending March 2025CoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour020406020162018202020222024Year ending March 2015: 34 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2016: 35 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2017: 50 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2018: 79 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2019: 54 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2020: 35 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2021: 41 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2022: 50 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2023: 29 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2024: 33 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2025: 27 offences · published 5 February 2026
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Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument by police force area: Year ending March 2011 to Year ending March 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour01k2k3k201520202025Year ending March 2011: 2,048 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 1,736 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 1,599 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 1,643 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 1,761 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 1,797 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 1,657 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 1,952 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 3,169 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 3,188 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 3,056 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 3,618 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 3,338 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 3,333 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 3,425 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 2,855 offences · published 23 July 2026
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Police officers by police force area: Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour03k5k8k2010201520202025Year ending March 2007: 7,992 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 8,034 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 8,232 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 8,148 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 7,791 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 7,498 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 7,202 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 6,997 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 6,703 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 6,297 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 6,318 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 6,349 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 6,444 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 6,866 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 7,086 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 7,388 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 8,014 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 8,141 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 8,112 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 8,234 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026
Earlier years are the publisher's own back run, joined where the periods do not overlap.Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value

By category, 12 months to August 2022

CategoryOffencesPrevious 12 monthsChangePer 1,000England & Wales per 1,000
Violence and sexual offences13———34.7
Anti-social behaviour (not a crime)1———15.3
Criminal damage and arson0———6.9
Drugs0———3.4
Other crime0———2.2
Other theft0———6.5
Possession of weapons0———1.0
Public disorder and weapons0———0.0
Public order0———6.8
Robbery0———1.4
Shoplifting0———8.3
Theft from the person0———1.7
Vehicle crime0———5.0
Burglary0———3.6
Violent crime0———0.0
Bicycle theft0———0.8

Local authorities in this force area

Important caveat

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-crime rate does not mean an area is more dangerous. Rates depend on how much crime is reported and recorded, on the number of visitors and commuters who are not counted in the resident population, and on the policing priorities of the force. Anti-social behaviour incidents are shown separately because they are not recorded crimes.

Source

Data
data.police.uk street-level crime archive (Home Office). Offences are placed at anonymised snap points and assigned to 2021 Lower Layer Super Output Areas, which are mapped to local authorities using the ONS Open Geography lookup.
Population
ONS mid-year population estimates for England and Wales, mid-2022 edition, local authority level; force populations are the sum of their local authorities.
Geography
E23000005
Rate
offences in the 12 months ÷ resident population × 1,000, rounded to one decimal place.
Method
Methodology