The UK car & motorbike theft map
TheftRadar UK is a community-driven map of vehicle and motorcycle theft across the United Kingdom. Every pin is a real report from someone whose vehicle or motorcycle was stolen — together they reveal where theft is concentrated, when it happens, and what's being targeted.
Individual thefts feel random; mapped together, they aren't. Patterns emerge — hotspots around certain postcodes, spikes on particular days, models that thieves favour. That intelligence helps owners park smarter, helps communities push for action, and gives everyone a clearer picture than official statistics that lag months behind.
Anyone can report a theft from the map page: enter the registration, the postcode where it was taken, and optionally a photo. The report is pinned to the map instantly. Zoomed out, nearby thefts merge into numbered badges — cyan for vehicles, amber for motorcycles, and a split ring where both appear in one area. Click a badge to zoom in; pins that share a location fan out so each can be opened. The Browse page lets you search every report, and Stats shows the trends.
Call the police on 101 (or 999 if the theft is in progress) and get a crime reference number, tell your insurer, then pin it here so the community can keep an eye out. If you spot a vehicle listed on this site, do not approach or attempt to recover it yourself — report the sighting to the police with the crime reference.
TheftRadar is pure location statistics: it records where a theft happened, and that's it. Reports stay on the map even if the vehicle is later recovered — the crime still occurred at that spot, and that's what the hotspot picture measures. Reports are community-submitted and unverified, so treat this as an intelligence picture, not an official record. Nothing here replaces a police report, and the map should not be used to confront anyone or attempt vigilante recovery.
To stop the map being flooded with fake reports, submissions are rate-limited per connection (3 per hour, 10 per day) and each registration can only be reported once — a genuine victim reports one or two vehicles, not a hundred.