LIST OF COUNTIES IN THE ORDER OF THEIR CRIMINALITY, AS SHOWN BY THE NUMBER OF CRIMINALS TO EVERY 10,000 OF THE POPULATION.
Counties above the Average in Crime.
| Gloucester | 26·1 |
| Worcester | 25·0 |
| Middlesex | 24·5 |
| Hereford | 23·8 |
| Chester | 22·6 |
| Warwick | 21·6 |
| Bucks | 20·4 |
| Somerset | 19·9 |
| Essex | 19·1 |
| Wilts | 18·9 |
| Lancaster | 18·5 |
| Monmouth | 18·0 |
| Stafford | 17·9 |
| Oxford | 17·8 |
| Southampton | 17·7 |
| Hertford | 17·5 |
| Leicester | 17·1 |
| Norfolk | 17·1 |
| Average for all England and Wales | 16·4 |
Counties above the Average in Crime.
| Kent | 16·4 |
| Surrey | 16·3 |
| Berks | 16·0 |
| Suffolk | 15·7 |
| Sussex | 15·3 |
| Bedford | 15·2 |
| Salop | 14·9 |
| Cambridge | 14·7 |
| Dorset | 14·6 |
| Northampton | 14·2 |
| Devon | 14·1 |
| Rutland | 13·9 |
| Lincoln | 12·8 |
| Nottingham | 11·8 |
| York | 11·4 |
| Derby | 10·5 |
| South Wales | 8·4 |
| Northumberland | 8·2 |
| Westmorland | 8·1 |
| Cornwall | 8·0 |
| Durham | 7·8 |
| North Wales | 7·2 |
| Cumberland | 7·1 |