Colchester

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192,715 people · median £315,000

High wellbeing

Colchester Council · Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition 30/51 seats · 59% · OCD 2026

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How safe is it? This district

Crime runs at 9 per 1,000 residents a month — below the 9.3 average across districts AcreRight covers. Like most places with a retail centre, offences cluster where the shops are, not where people live.

Crime rate

Per 1,000 / month9

Average across AcreRight-covered districts9.3

Street-level counts · police.uk, last 12 months

By category, 12 months district

Violence & sexual offences

732

Anti-social behaviour

227

Shoplifting

176

Public order

139

Other theft

113

Criminal damage & arson

103

Recorded crimes by category across the whole district, last 12 months · police.uk / Home Office

Where crime clusters

police.uk publishes anonymised "on or near" points, not named hotspots. The map above shows where they cluster, with the crime layer on.

Clusters of anonymised on-or-near markers, not addresses · police.uk

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