Parish Church of St Lawrence · Photo: Tigerboy1966 · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Wymington runs higher than in almost every UK town
It grades D− for safety on crimes police recorded inside Wymington’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. For every 1,000 residents, 65.3 violent and sexual offences and 31.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were logged a year. With 12 cases in the 12 months to August 2026, burglary reaches 12 per 1,000 residents here, well above the typical 1.6. Violent crime was up 58% 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 Wymington
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 58% more violent crime per resident in Wymington than in the year before; across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Wymington’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 291 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Wymington against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How crime in Wymington has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 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 +58% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles +57% (towns its size +0%), anti-social behaviour -65% (towns its size -1%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Wymington runs highest on other crime (10 per 1,000 against 1.1), burglary (12 per 1,000 against 1.6) and criminal damage & arson (15 per 1,000 against 3.2).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 62 | 62 | 16.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 15 | 15 | 3.2 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 13 | 13 | 5.3 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 12 | 12 | 1.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 10 | 10 | 1.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 6 | 6 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 6 | 6 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Other theft | not graded | 4 | 4 | 2.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 3 | 0.6 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | 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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
Police in Wymington identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 29% of Wymington’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 2% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (79% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 0% of violent and 0% 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. 126 crimes.
How Wymington compares with UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
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| 40 | Flitton Bedfordshire | 1,531 | 7.4 | 2 | 1.3 | A+ |
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| 282 | Heath and Reach Bedfordshire | 1,451 | 10.6 | 6.7 | 7.1 | A |
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| 539 | Lidlington Bedfordshire | 1,300 | 19.5 | 3.3 | 1 | A− |
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| 581 | Houghton Conquest Bedfordshire | 1,867 | 15.7 | 8 | 1.8 | B+ |
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| 1199 | Camber East Sussex | 1,132 | 61.5 | 25.3 | 14.4 | D− |
| 1200 | Salfords Surrey | 1,873 | 61.6 | 25.3 | 15.3 | D− |
| 1201 | Meon Vale Warwickshire | 1,413 | 73.8 | 20.3 | 7.3 | D− |
| 1202 | Wymington Bedfordshire | 1,000 | 65.3 | 31.7 | 7.3 | D− |
| 1203 | Sherford Devon | 1,311 | 81 | 16.9 | 12.2 | D− |
| 1204 | Lingdale North Yorkshire | 1,323 | 60 | 38.8 | 5 | D− |
| 1205 | Thorp Arch West Yorkshire | 1,782 | 91.1 | 9.9 | 3 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 1214 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | 1,928 | 259 | 64.7 | 57.2 | 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 Wymington, and others in Bedfordshire.
Crime in Wymington 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 33 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.
No one died in a collision on Wymington’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 4 collisions with injuries inside Wymington in five years. 2 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Wymington is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Wymington’s size at the median for UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people would see about 1 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Wymington had 2.
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 Wymington’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Wymington
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wymington | 1,000 | 65.3 | 31.7 | D− |
| Rushden | 31,689 | 36.6 | 15.4 | C− |
| Irchester | 4,543 | 18.9 | 8.2 | B |
| Higham Ferrers | 8,825 | 25.7 | 10.8 | C+ |
| Wollaston | 3,564 | 23.5 | 6.9 | B |
| Sharnbrook | 1,744 | 18.9 | 7.3 | B+ |
| Irthlingborough | 9,308 | 29.3 | 10.8 | C+ |
| Bozeat | 2,166 | 10 | 4.6 | A |
Wymington records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Rushden, 1.2 miles away, records 36.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Wymington’s 65.3.
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 Wymington 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 Wymington
Is Wymington safe?
Police recorded 65.3 violent and sexual offences and 31.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Wymington’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: behind almost every UK town. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Wymington has less crime per resident than 1%.
Is crime going up in Wymington?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 58%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 57%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour fell 65%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Wymington?
Violence & sexual offences: 62 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (15) and burglary (12), with 13 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Wymington compare with Wellingborough?
Wellingborough records 48.9 violent and sexual offences and 19.1 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Wymington’s 65.3 and 31.7, 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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