Crime in Hull: Latest Statistics, Trends and What the Figures Show

Crime in Hull decreased overall between January and December 2024 and the same period in 2025.

The Police.uk street-level dataset analysed for this report contained 37,148 crime and anti-social behaviour incidents in 2025, down from 37,931 in 2024.

That represents an overall reduction of 2.1%.

The headline figure, however, does not tell the full story.

Shoplifting, robbery, vehicle crime, possession of weapons and drug offences all increased, while burglary, anti-social behaviour, criminal damage and several other categories declined.

Key Point

Hull recorded 37,148 street-level crime and anti-social behaviour incidents in 2025, down 2.1% from 37,931 in 2024. Overall incidents fell, but shoplifting, robbery and vehicle crime all increased.

What Area Does the Hull Crime Data Cover?

This comparison uses monthly Humberside Police street-level crime files covering January to December 2024 and January to December 2025.

Records were selected where the published Lower Layer Super Output Area, or LSOA, name began with “Kingston upon Hull”.

The same filtering method was applied to all 24 monthly datasets, creating a consistent year-on-year comparison across 168 Hull LSOAs.

Police.uk street-level data should not be interpreted as an exact address-level record of crime. Published locations are anonymised and represent an approximate location rather than the precise point where an incident occurred.

How Much Crime Was Recorded in Hull?

The Hull dataset contained 37,148 incidents during 2025.

That was 783 fewer incidents than in 2024, representing an overall reduction of approximately 2.1%.

Across 2025, that equates to approximately:

3,096 incidents per month, 712 incidents per week and 102 incidents per day.

The equivalent 2024 dataset contained 37,931 records, averaging approximately 104 incidents per day.

The annual reduction was therefore relatively modest.

More importantly, it was not shared equally across every crime category.

Six categories increased during 2025, while eight recorded decreases.

Hull Crime Statistics: 2024 Compared With 2025

Did Recorded Crime in Hull Increase or Decrease?

Overall recorded incidents decreased by 2.1% between 2024 and 2025.

However, describing Hull simply as having experienced a fall in crime would hide some important changes underneath the headline figure.

Violence and sexual offences fell by 384 records.

Burglary decreased by 276.

Anti-social behaviour fell by 265, while criminal damage and arson decreased by 242.

Those reductions helped bring the overall total down.

At the same time, drug offences increased by 332 records, shoplifting rose by 205 and robbery increased by 74.

Vehicle crime also moved upwards, although the annual increase was relatively small at 24 incidents.

The figures therefore show a change in the composition of recorded crime rather than a uniform improvement across Hull.

Violence and Sexual Offences Remained the Largest Category

Violence and sexual offences remained by far the largest category in the Hull dataset.

There were 15,393 records in 2025, compared with 15,777 in 2024.

That represents a reduction of:

384 incidents, or approximately 2.4%.

Despite the fall, this category still represented approximately 41.4% of all records included in the 2025 dataset.

The Police.uk category covers a wide range of offences and does not identify from this dataset alone how many incidents occurred in homes, public spaces, workplaces or commercial environments.

The figure is therefore most useful as an indication of scale rather than as a direct measure of risk to Hull businesses.

Shoplifting Increased by 6.0%

Shoplifting was one of the clearest high-volume categories to move upwards during 2025.

Records increased from 3,437 in 2024 to 3,642 in 2025.

That represents:

205 additional incidents and a year-on-year increase of approximately 6.0%.

The 2025 total equates to an average of more than 300 shoplifting incidents per month across the Hull dataset.

Shoplifting is primarily relevant to retail environments and should not be treated as evidence of increased theft risk across every type of commercial site.

It does, however, show that the broader reduction in recorded crime was not reflected across all acquisitive crime categories.

Drug Offences Recorded the Largest Increase

Drug offences increased from 570 records in 2024 to 902 in 2025.

That represents:

332 additional records and an increase of approximately 58.2%.

It was both the largest numerical increase and the largest percentage increase of any category in the Hull comparison.

This figure requires careful interpretation.

Recorded drug offences can be particularly influenced by proactive policing, stop and search activity, detection and enforcement priorities. Home Office material has previously noted how proactive policing activity can affect the volume of recorded drug offences.

The 58.2% increase should therefore not be interpreted as evidence that underlying drug use in Hull increased by the same percentage.

Robbery Increased by Almost 20%

Robbery increased from 374 incidents in 2024 to 448 in 2025.

That was an increase of:

74 incidents, or approximately 19.8%.

The percentage increase is notable, but the total should remain in context.

Robbery represented approximately 1.2% of all incidents in the 2025 dataset and remained much smaller in volume than violence and sexual offences, shoplifting, public order offences or criminal damage.

This is why both the percentage movement and the actual number of incidents matter when interpreting crime statistics.

Burglary Fell by 13.3%

Burglary recorded one of the more substantial reductions during 2025.

The total fell from 2,070 incidents in 2024 to 1,794 in 2025.

That represents:

276 fewer incidents and a year-on-year reduction of approximately 13.3%.

The direction is positive.

It does not, however, mean that burglary risk disappeared.

Almost 1,800 burglary records still appeared in the Hull dataset during 2025.

City-wide burglary data also cannot determine the risk affecting one warehouse, construction project, industrial unit, vacant building or storage compound.

Site exposure depends on factors such as location, accessibility, perimeter condition, occupancy, stored assets and the ability to detect suspicious activity before entry occurs.

Vehicle Crime Increased Slightly

Vehicle crime moved in the opposite direction to burglary.

There were 1,254 vehicle crime records in 2025, compared with 1,230 in 2024.

That represents an increase of 24 incidents, or approximately 2.0%.

The percentage movement is modest, so it would be misleading to describe vehicle crime as having surged.

The remaining volume is nevertheless relevant for sites containing commercial fleets, vans, trailers, staff vehicles, machinery or vehicle storage areas.

For those locations, city-wide trends are only one part of the risk picture.

Poor lighting, uncontrolled access, predictable periods of inactivity, damaged fencing and areas outside CCTV coverage can all increase site-specific exposure.

Criminal Damage and Anti-Social Behaviour Both Fell

Criminal damage and arson decreased from 3,304 incidents to 3,062, a reduction of 7.3%.

Anti-social behaviour fell from 2,872 to 2,607, a reduction of 9.2%.

Both movements contributed to the overall decline in Hull’s 2025 total.

Even after those reductions, more than 5,600 incidents were recorded across the two categories combined.

For commercial property operators, these categories can become particularly relevant where repeated nuisance, trespass, vandalism or unauthorised access affects car parks, vacant units, compounds and out-of-hours premises.

The city-wide figures do not tell us how many of those incidents involved commercial property, so they should not be used to make that claim.

Which Months Recorded the Most Crime in Hull?

The highest monthly total during 2025 was recorded in July, when the Hull dataset contained 3,674 incidents.

The lowest was February, with 2,713.

July was approximately 35% higher than February.

That difference alone does not prove a seasonal crime pattern.

A longer multi-year dataset would be needed before concluding that Hull consistently experiences higher recorded crime during particular months.

What Could Hull’s Figures Mean for Yards, Compounds and Industrial Sites?

The 2.1% overall reduction should not be interpreted as evidence that every Hull commercial site became safer during 2025.

The data shows that:

vehicle crime remained above 1,250 incidents, shoplifting increased, robbery increased, almost 1,800 burglaries were still recorded, and criminal damage and arson remained above 3,000 incidents.

None of those city-wide figures directly measures crime at industrial premises.

They do, however, demonstrate why businesses should assess the risk attached to their own site rather than relying solely on whether Hull’s headline crime total increased or decreased.

Warehouses, industrial premises, construction sites, storage compounds and vehicle yards can present very different opportunities from occupied residential or retail environments.

A large perimeter, valuable assets, quiet overnight periods, multiple access points or areas that cannot be easily observed may create exposure even during a year when overall city crime is falling.

Passive Security and Active Site Control

Fencing, locks, lighting, alarms, CCTV and access-control systems can all form useful parts of a site security strategy.

Their effectiveness depends on how they are installed, maintained and monitored, and what happens when suspicious activity is detected.

For larger or more exposed premises, active security can add a physical presence capable of checking vulnerable areas, changing patrol patterns, identifying signs of interference and escalating incidents as they develop.

Colosseum K9 provides security dog handler services for commercial sites where visible patrols, wider perimeter coverage and an active out-of-hours presence are justified by the site-specific risk.

This can include industrial sites, warehouses, compounds, construction projects and vacant properties. Colosseum K9’s current sector coverage includes these types of exposed commercial locations.

Security dog handler deployment should follow an assessment of the site itself rather than being based purely on city crime statistics.

When Might a Hull Site Require Additional Security Cover?

Additional security may be worth reviewing when:

• a site has already experienced theft, trespass, vandalism or attempted entry
• valuable plant, vehicles, fuel, stock, tools or materials remain on site overnight
• fencing, gates or other perimeter controls are damaged or incomplete
• CCTV leaves blind spots or relies on a response arriving after an alert
• the premises are vacant, partially occupied or undergoing redevelopment
• vehicle yards or loading areas are exposed outside operating hours
• access arrangements change regularly during construction or site works
• incidents repeatedly occur during nights, weekends or shutdown periods

The correct level of protection depends on the individual site, its assets and the consequences of an incident.

Data Source and Methodology

This analysis uses Police.uk street-level crime and anti-social behaviour CSV files supplied by Humberside Police for January to December 2024 and January to December 2025.

Records were included where the published LSOA name began with “Kingston upon Hull”.

The same filter was applied across all 24 monthly datasets.

The totals include all Police.uk categories shown in the comparison table, including anti-social behaviour.

Percentage changes were calculated by comparing each 2025 category total with the equivalent figure from 2024.

Police.uk publishes street-level crime information monthly and includes LSOA identifiers in its downloadable data. Published coordinates are anonymised, so locations should be treated as approximate rather than exact.

These figures identify broad changes in recorded incidents.

They do not measure unreported crime, establish why a particular category changed or determine the precise security risk affecting an individual property.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many crimes were recorded in Hull in 2025?

The dataset contained 37,148 street-level crime and anti-social behaviour incidents during 2025.

Did crime in Hull increase in 2025?

No. The overall total decreased by approximately 2.1%, falling from 37,931 incidents in 2024 to 37,148 in 2025.

What was the most commonly recorded crime in Hull?

Violence and sexual offences was the largest category, with 15,393 records during 2025.

Which crime increased the most in Hull?

Drug offences produced the largest numerical and percentage increase, rising from 570 to 902 records, an increase of 58.2%. This category can be strongly influenced by proactive policing and enforcement activity.

Did shoplifting increase in Hull?

Yes. Shoplifting increased by 6.0%, from 3,437 incidents in 2024 to 3,642 in 2025.

How much vehicle crime was recorded in Hull?

There were 1,254 vehicle crime records in 2025, up 2.0% from 1,230 in 2024.

How many burglaries were recorded in Hull?

There were 1,794 burglary records in 2025, down 13.3% from 2,070 in 2024.

Are Police.uk crime locations exact?

No. Police.uk anonymises street-level locations. Published points represent an approximate location rather than the precise address of an incident.

Does falling crime across Hull mean an individual business needs less security?

Not necessarily. City-wide statistics do not measure the risk attached to a specific site. Property type, location, occupancy, access points, perimeter condition, valuable assets and previous incidents should all be considered separately.

Conclusion

Crime in Hull moved slightly downwards overall during 2025, but the individual categories show a more complicated picture.

The total number of recorded incidents fell by 2.1%.

Burglary, criminal damage, anti-social behaviour and violence and sexual offences all decreased.

At the same time, shoplifting, robbery, vehicle crime, possession of weapons and drug offences increased.

For businesses, the important point is not whether Hull’s overall total moved up or down by a few percentage points.

The more useful question is whether a particular site remains exposed when it is quiet, unoccupied or difficult to monitor.

Where previous incidents, valuable assets, large perimeters or out-of-hours exposure create a higher risk, the security arrangement should be based on the site itself.