Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Less crime per resident is recorded in Flitwick than in 91% of UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people
It has less violent crime than 74% of UK towns, but less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than only 38%. The yearly rates were 16.2 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents. Recorded violence held steady in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Flitwick
Less crime than most places its size
Of 332 UK towns of 10,000 to 18,000 people, Flitwick has the 37th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Cranleigh, Euxton and North Hykeham, higher than Tadley, Crowthorne and Nailsea. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 20% of Flitwick’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
How Flitwick comes out at B
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,110 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Flitwick against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Flitwick runs highest on vehicle crime (4.7 per 1,000 against 2.8). Violence & sexual offences and shoplifting sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 209 | 15.3 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 123 | 9 | 12.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 64 | 4.7 | 2.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 62 | 4.5 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 40 | 2.9 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 37 | 2.7 | 4.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 27 | 2 | 6.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 20 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 19 | 1.4 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 18 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 6 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 3 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
1 in 5 Flitwick residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
59% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Flitwick’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Flitwick is 37th of 332 UK towns of 10,000 to 18,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 27 | Stotfold Bedfordshire | 12,313 | 18.8 | 6.3 | 3.9 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 34 | Tadley Hampshire | 14,767 | 19.6 | 7.4 | 6.6 | B |
| 35 | Crowthorne Berkshire | 15,196 | 20.3 | 6.7 | 10.8 | B |
| 36 | Nailsea Somerset | 15,919 | 18.8 | 8.4 | 8.9 | B |
| 37 | Flitwick Bedfordshire | 13,668 | 16.2 | 11.2 | 9.4 | B |
| 38 | Chalfont St Peter Buckinghamshire | 13,654 | 15.6 | 11.9 | 5.8 | B |
| 39 | Tring Hertfordshire | 11,961 | 17.4 | 10.2 | 9.3 | B |
| 40 | Ballymoney Causeway Coast and Glens | 11,048 | 19 | 8.8 | 7.2 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 165 | Sandy Bedfordshire | 11,375 | 28.1 | 13.1 | 9.2 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 332 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Flitwick, and others in Bedfordshire.
Police in Flitwick identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 75% of Flitwick’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 10% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (71% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 6% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 375 crimes.
Crime in Flitwick per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 11 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Flitwick has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +3% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -9% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -48% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +17% (towns its size -4%).
One person died in collisions on Flitwick’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 38 collisions with injuries inside Flitwick in five years, in which one person died. 9 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Flitwick’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Flitwick’s own rate (1.5) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Flitwick’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 16 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Flitwick had 9.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Flitwick’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Flitwick
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flitwick | 13,668 | 16.2 | 11.2 | B |
| Westoning | 2,097 | 12.2 | 6.7 | A |
| Ampthill | 8,825 | 16.1 | 8.5 | B+ |
| Flitton | 1,531 | 7.4 | 2 | A+ |
| Maulden | 2,486 | 19.7 | 5.1 | B+ |
| Harlington | 2,287 | 17.9 | 12.5 | B |
| Silsoe | 3,419 | 11.8 | 6.5 | A |
| Lidlington | 1,300 | 19.5 | 3.3 | A− |
Flitwick records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Harlington records more. Westoning, 1.5 miles away, records 12.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Flitwick’s 16.2.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Flitwick sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Flitwick
Is Flitwick safe?
Police recorded 16.2 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Flitwick’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 63% of UK towns. Among 332 UK towns of 10,000 to 18,000 people, Flitwick is 37th from the least crime. 20% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Flitwick?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 9%, shoplifting and theft fell 48% and anti-social behaviour rose 17%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Flitwick?
Violence & sexual offences: 209 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (64) and criminal damage & arson (62), with 123 reports of anti-social behaviour.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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