Manchester · Crime & flooding

Crime and flood risk in Manchester

Manchester is a city. This page covers recorded crime per 1,000 residents and flood risk from rivers and the sea, from official data: each figure with the period it covers, the area it was measured over and its source.

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

1.1% of nearby postcodes have homes at medium or high flood risk. Period: latest release, 2 Nov 2026. Area: A 3 km radius around the centre of the named place. Source: Environment Agency Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes). Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064

Recorded crime

390 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Period: 12 months to September 2024 (estimate). Area: 2021 census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) centred within the analysis area, estimated from council totals. Source: Home Office police recorded crime open data tables (estimate). An estimate, not a count: about 49,264 reports among 126,264 residents. Method: estimate for councils whose police force publishes too few street-level records (Greater Manchester, and Gloucestershire councils with gaps): each council's Home Office recorded crime for the year, scaled to police.uk's count, shared between its neighbourhoods by an earlier year's police.uk records, then counted in the 2021 census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) centred within 3 km and divided by their Census 2021 residents (neighbourhood shares from police.uk records for July 2018 to June 2019). Confidence: limited. Per resident, not per visitor: town centres and the coast record more because more people pass through than live there.

More about Manchester

• House prices in Manchester
• Schools in Manchester
• Getting around Manchester
• Everyday life in Manchester

Crime & flooding in nearby places

• Crime and flood risk in Ancoats
• Crime and flood risk in Hulme
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