Bike Theft Data
Probably the most exhaustive list on bike theft data in Europe and beyond..

Bike theft data and bike theft prevention
For a presentation on bike theft our team has assembled a large set of sources on bike theft statistics. It is currently available as a google sheet here. Over the next months, we will provide the information in a structured way, so that the reader can find data on a certain theft aspect more easily. Currently a search in the google sheet should already help to identify relevant sources. In addition, we have created a substantial list of links on articles and research papers on bike theft, click here. You can sort the articles to only see articles with bike theft data, or see all bike theft articles.
If you are interested in more cycling data, our friends from the ECF headed the ‘cycling counts’ project with a broad range of European indicators on cycling.
Bike theft in a nutshell
Our presentation at the 2025 POLIS conference in Utrecht describes main facts on the impact of bike theft:
