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Police station precinct

Aberdeen

dr beyers naude · sarah baartman · Eastern Cape

Latest year 2024/2520 financial years of records

Recorded crime, 2024/25

292

−12.3%(−41) decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Across the 17 community-reported serious crime categories.

Years of data

20

2005/06 to 2024/25. The South African Police Service reports crime by financial year, which runs from 1 April to 31 March. 2024/25 therefore covers 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

Area snapshot

The 2024/25 total compared with this precinct's own history. Averages skip years the source does not provide rather than treating them as zero.

2024/25Latest financial year
292
5-year average2020/21–2024/25
315
10-year average2015/16–2024/25
330
Historical high2005/06
400
Historical low2010/11
258

The latest figure sits between the historical low of 258 and the historical high of 400.

What the figures show

Plain-English statements generated from the calculations on this page. They describe what was recorded and nothing beyond it.

  • Recorded crime decreased 12.3% year-on-year, from 333 in 2023/24 to 292 in 2024/25.
  • The latest figure is 11.5% below the ten-year average of 330.
  • Sexual offences recorded the largest decrease among the major categories, from 14 to 7 (−50.0%).

Crime profile

Types of recorded crime that make up this precinct's latest-year total. This is a composition of what was recorded, not a judgement of how dangerous the area is.

Shares are of the 292 recorded crimes across the 17 community-reported serious crime categories. Selecting a category focuses the historical chart on that grouping. How this total is defined

Historical context

Recorded crime over the last 5 years, 10 years, or the full available series. Choose a category to match the profile above.

The total_recorded_crime aggregate.

What's changing

Categories with the largest movements between 2023/24 and 2024/25. A change is only listed when it is large enough in both absolute and proportional terms.

Recorded more often

No category increased by enough to be reported between 2023/24 and 2024/25.

Recorded less often

  1. Sexual offences14 → 7−50.0% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  2. Residential burglary67 → 48−28.4% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  3. Assault (GBH)66 → 49−25.8% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  4. Other theft72 → 58−19.4% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  5. Common assault27 → 22−18.5% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Crime history

Highest and lowest recorded years for Aberdeen, and the largest comparable year-on-year movements in the dataset.

Highest recorded year
2005/06 — 400 incidents
Lowest recorded year
2010/11 — 258 incidents
Largest year-on-year increase
2014/15 — +30.3%
Largest year-on-year decrease
2010/11 — −19.9%

Unusual movements

The latest year-on-year change compared with this precinct's own earlier comparable movements, not with a national ranking.

Latest movement · recorded crime

Within the historical range

The −12.3% movement in 2024/25 sits within the range of earlier comparable year-on-year changes for this series.

  • AssaultNotable

    The −23.7% movement in 2024/25 is at least 1.5 times the median of earlier comparable year-on-year movements (+8.7% in absolute terms).

  • Sexual offencesNotable

    The −50.0% movement in 2024/25 is at least 1.5 times the median of earlier comparable year-on-year movements (+27.3% in absolute terms).

Nearby stations

Geographic context only. CrimeMap SA does not assign a suburb to an official precinct.

Other police stations near Aberdeen. Distances are from the station coordinates in the source file. A suburb or neighbourhood is not necessarily the same as a police precinct.

Crime detected through police action

Reported separately because these figures largely reflect how much policing activity took place, not how much crime was reported by the public. They are not part of the total above.

2024/25

Total detected through police action41+24.2% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Source and methodology

These are crimes recorded by police in the Aberdeen precinct, not all crime that occurred there. Cases that were never reported do not appear, and reporting rates differ between areas and between categories.
Figures are counts, not rates. The source data contains no population figure for a precinct, so CrimeMap SA cannot show crime per 100,000 people and does not estimate one. A precinct covering a dense area will usually record more of everything.
Precinct boundaries change over time as stations are opened, closed or redrawn. A large movement in a single year can reflect a boundary change rather than a change in recorded crime.

Figures are crimes recorded by the South African Police Service. Read the full methodology.

Where this precinct is

The source file has a point for the police station, not an official precinct outline. Nearby stations are shown for context.

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