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Police station precinct

Butterworth

mnquma · amathole · Eastern Cape

Latest year 2025/2621 financial years of records

Recorded crime, 2025/26

1 915

+20.3%(+323) increased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Across the 17 community-reported serious crime categories.

Years of data

21

2005/06 to 2025/26. 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 2025/26 total compared with this precinct's own history. Averages skip years the source does not provide rather than treating them as zero.

2025/26Latest financial year
1 915
5-year average2021/22–2025/26
1 671
10-year average2016/17–2025/26
1 697
Historical high2012/13
2 450
Historical low2020/21
1 431

The latest figure sits between the historical low of 1 431 and the historical high of 2 450.

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 increased 20.3% year-on-year, from 1 592 in 2024/25 to 1 915 in 2025/26.
  • Recorded crime recorded its largest annual increase in the available dataset. The +20.3% rise in 2025/26 is larger than every earlier comparable annual increase in this series.
  • The latest figure is 12.8% above the ten-year average of 1 697.
  • Malicious damage to property increased +72.7% while stock theft decreased −23.9%.

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 1 915 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 2024/25 and 2025/26. A change is only listed when it is large enough in both absolute and proportional terms.

Recorded more often

  1. Malicious damage to property99 → 171+72.7% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  2. Other theft199 → 308+54.8% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  3. Theft from vehicle42 → 63+50.0% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  4. Attempted murder22 → 32+45.5% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  5. Common robbery47 → 67+42.6% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Recorded less often

  1. Stock theft46 → 35−23.9% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  2. Murder48 → 39−18.7% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Crime history

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

Highest recorded year
2012/13 — 2 450 incidents
Lowest recorded year
2020/21 — 1 431 incidents
Largest year-on-year increase
2025/26 — +20.3%
Largest year-on-year decrease
2006/07 — −14.9%

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

Largest recorded increase

The +20.3% rise in 2025/26 is larger than every earlier comparable annual increase in this series.

Nearby stations

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

Other police stations near Butterworth. 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.

2025/26

Total detected through police action225+127.3% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Source and methodology

These are crimes recorded by police in the Butterworth 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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