Photo: Poliphilo · CC0Toddington records anti-social behaviour at 3.1 times the rate of a typical town its size
Recorded violence fell 22% in a year. On top of that, of all the kinds of crime, anti-social behaviour is where Toddington departs most from towns its size: 27.5 per 1,000 against 8.8. In sum, crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 put Toddington at B+ (#11 of 33 in Bedfordshire): less crime per resident than 68% of UK towns.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Toddington
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 22% less violent crime per resident in Toddington than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Toddington has the 192nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Milborne Port, Bricket Wood and Caddington, higher than Swanmore, Weldon and Gilberdyke. 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. 33% of Toddington’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.
The B+ for Toddington, and how it is built
A fairly firm grade. Built on 347 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Toddington 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, Toddington runs highest on anti-social behaviour (27.5 per 1,000 against 8.8). Violence & sexual offences and criminal damage & arson sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 124 | 27.5 | 8.8 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 71 | 15.7 | 22.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 15 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 13 | 2.9 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 12 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 10 | 2.2 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 5 | 1.1 | 1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 4 | 0.9 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 3 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2 | 0.4 | 1.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
A third of Toddington residents live in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
33% 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.
Toddington’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.
How crime in Toddington has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling twelve-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 -22% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -35% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +235% (towns its size +0%).
Police in Toddington identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 82% of Toddington’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 11% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (67% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 2% 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. 114 crimes.
Set against 706 towns its size, Toddington is 192nd
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 17 | Bromham Bedfordshire | 4,652 | 8.5 | 5.2 | 2.4 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 51 | Barton-le-Clay Bedfordshire | 4,941 | 10 | 7.5 | 4 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 61 | Silsoe Bedfordshire | 3,419 | 11.8 | 6.5 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 150 | Eaton Bray and Edlesborough Bedfordshire | 4,201 | 12.3 | 11.5 | 2 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 189 | Swanmore Hampshire | 3,113 | 19.3 | 6.3 | 3.1 | B+ |
| 190 | Weldon Northamptonshire | 3,042 | 17.9 | 7.8 | 4.7 | B+ |
| 191 | Gilberdyke East Riding of Yorkshire | 3,028 | 20.4 | 5.3 | 2.8 | B+ |
| 192 | Toddington Bedfordshire | 4,509 | 16.6 | 9.1 | 4.4 | B+ |
| 193 | Upper Tean Staffordshire | 3,244 | 16.5 | 9.4 | 7.9 | B+ |
| 194 | Cuddington Cheshire | 5,860 | 21.1 | 4.9 | 2.7 | B+ |
| 195 | Brockenhurst Hampshire | 3,484 | 14 | 11.9 | 18.4 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 706 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 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 Toddington, and others in Bedfordshire.
For every 1,000 residents, about 16 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
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 6 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 3 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
No one died in a collision on Toddington’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 13 collisions with injuries inside Toddington in five years. 4 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Toddington is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Toddington’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 4 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Toddington had 4.
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 Toddington’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Toddington
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toddington | 4,509 | 16.6 | 9.1 | B+ |
| Harlington | 2,287 | 17.9 | 12.5 | B |
| Hockliffe | 1,068 | 20.3 | 17.8 | C+ |
| Houghton Regis | 18,814 | 40.5 | 18.4 | D |
| Westoning | 2,097 | 12.2 | 6.7 | A |
| Dunstable | 34,498 | 31.3 | 14.9 | C |
| Flitwick | 13,668 | 16.2 | 11.2 | B |
| Totternhoe | 1,017 | 20.3 | 12.5 | B− |
Toddington records more graded crime per resident than 1 of its 7 neighbours. Westoning, 3.1 miles away, records 12.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Toddington’s 16.6.
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 Toddington 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 Toddington
Is Toddington safe?
Police recorded 16.6 violent and sexual offences and 9.1 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Toddington’s built-up area). That earns a B+ for safety: less crime per resident than 68% of UK towns. Among 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Toddington is 192nd from the least crime. 33% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Toddington?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 22%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 35%, shoplifting and theft fell 13% and anti-social behaviour rose 235%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Toddington?
Violence & sexual offences: 71 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (15) and criminal damage & arson (13), with 124 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Toddington compare with Luton?
Luton records 36.7 violent and sexual offences and 17.7 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Toddington’s 16.6 and 9.1, over the same three years.
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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