Police station precinct
Bishopstowe
mkhambathini · umgungundlovu · KwaZulu-Natal
Recorded crime, 2025/26
226
+2.3%(+5) 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
- 226
- 5-year average2021/22–2025/26
- 243
- 10-year average2016/17–2025/26
- 238
- Historical high2016/17
- 287
- Historical low2007/08
- 54
The latest figure sits between the historical low of 54 and the historical high of 287.
What the figures show
Plain-English statements generated from the calculations on this page. They describe what was recorded and nothing beyond it.
- The latest figure is 5.0% below the ten-year average of 238.
- Sexual offences increased +55.0% while commercial crime decreased −66.7%.
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 226 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
- Sexual offences20 → 31+55.0% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
- Common assault22 → 32+45.5% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
- Other theft27 → 35+29.6% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
Recorded less often
- Commercial crime15 → 5−66.7% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.
- Residential burglary42 → 31−26.2% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.
Crime history
Highest and lowest recorded years for Bishopstowe, and the largest comparable year-on-year movements in the dataset.
- Highest recorded year
- 2016/17 — 287 incidents
- Lowest recorded year
- 2007/08 — 54 incidents
- Largest year-on-year increase
- 2008/09 — +83.3%
- Largest year-on-year decrease
- 2007/08 — −30.8%
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 +2.3% movement in 2025/26 sits within the range of earlier comparable year-on-year changes for this series.
Sexual offencesLargest recorded increase
The +55.0% 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 Bishopstowe. 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
Source and methodology
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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