There is no working Manchester crime map built on official street-level police data right now. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has not supplied crime data to data.police.uk for any recent month (the latest month published is August 2026), so Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Stockport and the rest of Greater Manchester look almost empty on every map that uses that feed, including ours.
Data: data.police.uk changelog and police.uk (latest month August 2026), GMP Freedom of Information responses (May and June 2026), ONS (year ending March 2026) · Updated 12 October 2026
- What is missing: GMP crime, outcome and stop and search data. The data.police.uk changelog marks GMP crime data as “not provided” for every month from at least March 2025 to August 2026.
- Why: GMP told a Freedom of Information requester in May 2026 that it does “not hold the data in the format that would be supplied via data.police.uk” and has no timeline for resuming.
- What police.uk shows instead: 4 crimes in 12 months for Piccadilly Gardens and 1 for Rusholme (September 2025 to August 2026), against 14,005 for Birmingham City Centre.
- What GMP itself recorded: at least 137 crimes in one month (May 2026) in the Rusholme area, according to a GMP FOI response.
- Population: the city of Manchester had about 552,000 residents at the 2021 Census (ONS), up 9.7% from 2011.
Is there a crime map for Manchester?
Not one built on current official street-level data. The police.uk and data.police.uk maps cover the 43 forces of England and Wales, but Greater Manchester Police is not supplying its records, so a Manchester crime map in August 2026 shows a handful of stray points instead of thousands of crimes. That gap affects all ten Greater Manchester boroughs, not only the city of Manchester.
The independent site CrimeRate shows “No data to show for Manchester” and says GMP “stopped sending data to the open-source data.police.uk service in July 2019”. GMP itself dates its move to a new IT system to July 2019, describing it in FOI replies as “one of the largest IT infrastructure changes in UK policing”. The current data.police.uk notice for the force reads: “Currently no crime, outcome or stop and search data is available”, adding that the force is “progressing towards a new IT system”.
What does police.uk show for Manchester neighbourhoods?
We checked the police.uk neighbourhood pages for four busy parts of south and central Manchester on 12 October 2026. Each page still lists twelve months of “crime for last year”, but the totals are close to zero. For comparison, the same twelve months for Birmingham City Centre, a West Midlands Police neighbourhood that does publish, add up to 14,005.
| Neighbourhood (police.uk) | Force | Crimes listed, Sep 2025–Aug 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Piccadilly Gardens | Greater Manchester Police | 4 |
| Northern Quarter | Greater Manchester Police | 4 |
| Fallowfield | Greater Manchester Police | 2 |
| Rusholme | Greater Manchester Police | 1 |
| City Centre (Birmingham) | West Midlands Police | 14,005 |
Source: police.uk neighbourhood pages (monthly totals added up by Safety App UK), checked 12 October 2026. Totals include anti-social behaviour where it is published. These Manchester counts are not real crime levels; they show how little GMP data reaches the map.
The few Manchester points that do appear are not a sample you can rely on. Treat any Greater Manchester street on a police-data map as “no data”, not as “no crime”.
How much crime is actually missing from the Manchester map?
A lot. In a Freedom of Information reply dated 11 June 2026, GMP listed crimes recorded in May 2026 across five Rusholme beats (Rusholme West, Victoria Park, Birchfields Park, Rusholme and Rusholme East). The figures it disclosed add up to at least 137 crimes in that single month, while police.uk lists 1 crime for its Rusholme neighbourhood across a whole year.
| Category (GMP, May 2026, Rusholme area) | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Violence without injury | 34 |
| Public order offences | 22 |
| All other theft offences | 17 |
| Vehicle offences | 16 |
| Violence with injury | 12 |
| Stalking and harassment | 11 |
| Possession of drugs | 10 |
| Bicycle theft, criminal damage and arson, miscellaneous crimes against society | 5 each |
| Seven other categories (including residential burglary, robbery and theft from the person) | withheld (“X”, low numbers) |
Source: GMP FOI reference FOI/26/016963/H (11 June 2026), crimes created 1–31 May 2026, excluding cancelled crimes and fraud. The sum of 137 is our own and leaves out the withheld categories, so the real total is higher.
Two points about this comparison. The FOI area covers five beats, so it is larger than the police.uk Rusholme neighbourhood. And GMP warns in the same reply that “various system issues” mean location data “may include crimes that did not happen in that location and/or exclude crimes that did”. Even so, the gap between at least 137 in a month and 1 in a year shows the scale of what the map is missing.
Why can’t we show the highest and lowest crime areas in Manchester?
Our other city crime maps rank areas by crimes per 1,000 residents over 12 months. For Greater Manchester there is no complete, location-based, monthly data set to rank, so any “safest” or “worst areas in Manchester” table built from police.uk would rank missing data. We have chosen not to publish one rather than publish a misleading one.
You may see older Manchester crime rates quoted elsewhere. Check the period and source before using them: a force-wide rate covers ten boroughs and tells you little about one street, as we explain in crime in Manchester: what a force-wide number does and doesn’t tell you.
Where can I check crime in Manchester instead?
Until GMP resumes publishing, these official routes give real figures, at force, borough or neighbourhood level rather than street level.
| Source | What it gives you | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| ONS Police Force Area data tables | Recorded crime for the whole GMP area by offence, year ending March 2026 (released 23 July 2026; next release 22 October 2026) | Force level only; no streets or neighbourhoods |
| GMP “Neighbourhood crime” spreadsheet | Burglary, theft from the person, robbery and vehicle offences, August 2019 to September 2026 (per the file name) | Four neighbourhood crime types only; an Excel download, not a map |
| GMP Freedom of Information requests | Counts by category for an area and period you name, as in the Rusholme example above | Takes weeks; small numbers are withheld; GMP warns about location errors |
| GMP news and Greater Manchester Combined Authority panel reports | Trends such as the ONS year to September 2025: burglary down 24%, theft from the person down 24%, robbery down 10%, shoplifting down 7% | Percentages, mostly force-wide, chosen by the publisher |
| police.uk neighbourhood pages | Your local policing team, its priorities and contact details | Crime counts are near zero because of the data gap |
The ONS bulletin for the year ending March 2026 also shows that GMP recorded 2,855 knife-enabled offences, 17% fewer than the year before and about 6% of the total for England and Wales. Neighbourhood priorities are still useful too: on the Piccadilly Gardens page, GMP lists rough sleeping and begging, illegal e-bikes and e-scooters, and drug dealing around Piccadilly Gardens, Oldham Street and the Northern Quarter (all issued 23 July 2026).
How do I check a street in Manchester on the crime map?
You can still search, but read the result as “no data”. Here is how to use our tools sensibly for Greater Manchester:
- Open the UK crime map and zoom to the street. Expect few or no points; that is the GMP gap, not a quiet street.
- Run the postcode checker if you want to confirm what the feed holds for a postcode. A count near zero inside Greater Manchester means missing data.
- Check the neighbourhood page on police.uk for your local team’s current priorities, which are written from GMP’s own records.
- Use a force-level figure for context from the ONS Police Force Area tables, and remember it averages ten very different boroughs.
- Compare with a city that publishes, such as the London crime map or Is Birmingham safe?, if you are choosing between cities.
Safety App UK shows this police data on a live map, plans safer walking routes and sends SOS to your trusted circle. In Greater Manchester the official crime layer stays close to empty until GMP publishes again, but SOS and live location sharing with your trusted circle work the same everywhere. Safety App UK is not a police service; in an emergency call 999, and 101 for non-emergencies.
What doesn’t any UK crime map show?
Even where forces publish, a police-data crime map has the same limits. The latest month is usually one to two months old (August 2026 as of October). Each crime sits on an anonymous map point covering at least eight addresses, so it is never an exact address. British Transport Police supplied no data for June, July or August 2026, so stations such as Manchester Piccadilly would be missing even if GMP returned. And crime that is never reported never appears. Read where our crime data comes from and our guide to the police crime map for the details.
Manchester crime map FAQ
Why is Manchester blank on the police crime map?
Because Greater Manchester Police is not supplying crime data to data.police.uk. The changelog marks GMP crime data as not provided for every month from at least March 2025 to August 2026, and GMP said in May 2026 that it has no timeline for resuming.
When will Manchester crime data be back on police.uk?
No date has been given. GMP says it intends to re-establish the data supply to police.uk but does “not currently have a timeline”. We will update this page when data returns.
Does a Manchester street with no crimes on the map have no crime?
No. Inside Greater Manchester a blank or near-blank map means missing data. GMP’s own figures for the Rusholme area show at least 137 crimes in May 2026 alone, against 1 for a whole year on police.uk.
What is the crime rate in Manchester?
No current, comparable rate per 1,000 residents is available for the city from street-level police data. The ONS Police Force Area tables give the force-wide total for Greater Manchester; for Manchester itself (about 552,000 residents in 2021) you would need GMP figures by district.
Is Salford, Bolton or Stockport affected too?
Yes. All ten Greater Manchester boroughs are policed by GMP, so the gap covers Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.
Sources: data.police.uk changelog; police.uk neighbourhood pages (Greater Manchester Police and West Midlands Police); GMP FOI responses FOI/26/016729/Z (1 May 2026) and FOI/26/016963/H (11 June 2026); GMP news, 29 January 2026; ONS Crime in England and Wales, year ending March 2026 (23 July 2026); ONS Census 2021. All checked 12 October 2026.
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