-Midlands

Midlands, Zimbabwe: crime rate and Safety score

No Safety score: the figures for 3 months to March 2026 are incomplete or partly not published.

Crime by type, as recorded by ZIMSTAT (3 months to March 2026)

Type	Count	Per 100,000 a year	All places this source covers
Sexual offences
Sexual offences	434	89.5	95.8
Sexual violence and sexual exploitation.
Violence
Assault and other harm to persons	4,168	860	1,049.4
Mostly assaults and threats (Q1 2026: 27,181 of 42,434); also dangerous acts (13,192), negligence, coercion, acts against liberty and trafficking in persons.
Robbery
Robbery	416	85.8	61.9
Theft and burglary
Theft, burglary and damage	4,498	928	1,217.2
Theft (Q1 2026: 35,109 of 49,220), burglary (9,091), property damage (3,644), intellectual property and other property offences.
Drugs
Drug and alcohol offences	1,078	222.4	311.6
Mostly unlawful acts involving alcohol, tobacco and other controlled substances (Q1 2026: 8,975 of 12,601); controlled drugs and precursors 3,336.
Damage and public order
Public order offences	1,721	355.1	431.2
Public order behaviour, revenue and regulatory offences, migration, offences against the justice system and others.
Other
Killings and attempted killings	157	32.4	27.1
ICCS section 01 as ZIMSTAT counts it: intentional homicide, attempted homicide, non-intentional homicide (including deaths caused on the road) and illegal feticide (Q1 2026 nationally: 306 of 1,094 were intentional homicides), so it is not counted as homicide.
Fraud and corruption	312	64.4	82.6
Environmental offences	164	33.8	26.8
Other offences	667	137.6	167.3

Source: ZIMSTAT, updated 26 October 2026.