Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Less crime per resident is recorded in Bracknell than in 86% of UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more
Violence recorded locally held about level in a year. Violent crime here is higher than in 72% of UK towns; burglary, vehicle crime and damage, higher than in 75%. Year on year, 31.9 violent and sexual offences and 13.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur per 1,000 residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Bracknell
One ward carries much of the rate
Wildridings and Central ward, where 35% of Bracknell’s shoplifting and theft is recorded, recorded 1,388 of Bracknell’s 7,516 violent and sexual offences in three years: 75.4 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Bracknell the figure is 28.3. Where in Bracknell ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 89 UK towns and cities of 55,000 to 106,000 people, Bracknell has the 15th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Bognor Regis, Cannock and Shrewsbury, higher than Rugby, Royal Sutton Coldfield and Farnborough. 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. 13% of Bracknell’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 2% 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.
What sits behind Bracknell’s C
A firm grade. Built on 10,704 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Bracknell against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
1 in 8 Bracknell residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
37% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 2% 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.
Bracknell’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.
Bracknell places 15th of 89 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 7 | Maidenhead Berkshire | 67,391 | 27.5 | 13.8 | 11.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 12 | Rugby Warwickshire | 78,130 | 32 | 12.1 | 11.9 | C |
| 13 | Royal Sutton Coldfield West Midlands | 93,392 | 26.6 | 17.5 | 17.8 | C |
| 14 | Farnborough Hampshire | 60,665 | 32 | 12.8 | 16.7 | C |
| 15 | Bracknell Berkshire | 78,662 | 31.9 | 13.5 | 18.4 | C |
| 16 | Southport Merseyside | 94,438 | 37.2 | 9.8 | 12.7 | C |
| 17 | Stourbridge West Midlands | 56,961 | 33 | 16.1 | 16.3 | C− |
| 18 | Weymouth Dorset | 55,540 | 37.7 | 11.7 | 14.5 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 89 | Doncaster South Yorkshire | 87,440 | 72.6 | 38.2 | 43.3 | 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 Bracknell, and others in Berkshire.
Lowest recorded crime in Warfield Harvest Ride, Crown Wood and Great Hollands South; highest in Wildridings and Central
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warfield Harvest Ride | 8,000 | 14.9 | 5.1 | |
| Crown Wood | 7,610 | 20.5 | 8.5 | |
| Great Hollands South | 4,881 | 25.2 | 8.9 | |
| Binfield with Warfield | 4,810 | 22.9 | 12.9 | |
| Great Hollands North | 7,972 | 28.1 | 12.4 | |
| Bullbrook | 6,896 | 28.8 | 12.6 | |
| Harmans Water | 9,263 | 29.3 | 13.2 | |
| Hanworth | 7,892 | 29.9 | 15.9 | |
| Old Bracknell | 5,992 | 41.1 | 14.9 | |
| Priestwood and Garth | 8,587 | 41.3 | 17.5 | |
| Wildridings and Central | 6,134 | 75.4 | 28.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 1,384 | 29% violent |
| Supermarkets | 898 | 52% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 683 | 62% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 386 | 32% shoplifting & theft |
| Police stations | 178 | 41% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 96 | 43% anti-social behaviour |
| College and university buildings | 59 | 66% violent |
| Parks and open spaces | 20 | 45% homes & vehicles |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Wildridings and Central records 2.7× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Bracknell. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Bracknell. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Bracknell’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Bracknell runs highest on bicycle theft (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.9). Anti-social behaviour and burglary sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 2,457 | 31.2 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 834 | 10.6 | 17.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 633 | 8 | 10.3 |
| Other theft | not graded | 516 | 6.6 | 6.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 451 | 5.7 | 7.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 449 | 5.7 | 7.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 420 | 5.3 | 4.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 223 | 2.8 | 3.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 155 | 2 | 3.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 125 | 1.6 | 2.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 86 | 1.1 | 0.9 |
| Robbery | Violent | 59 | 0.8 | 1.4 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 35 | 0.4 | 1.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 33 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
“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 and cities of 50,000 or more.
Crime in Bracknell 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 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 16 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 72% of Bracknell’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 14% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (61% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 4% 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. 3,660 crimes.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +2% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles +4% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +10% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -10% (towns its size -2%).
Seven people died in collisions on Bracknell’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 307 collisions with injuries inside Bracknell in five years, in which seven people died (2 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist). 65 people were killed or seriously injured: 18 on foot and 10 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more: at their median rate (1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bracknell’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bracknell’s own rate (1.8) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Bracknell had 16.6 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 28% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
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 Bracknell’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Bracknell
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bracknell | 78,662 | 31.9 | 13.5 | C |
| Newell Green | 1,871 | 17.5 | 6.2 | B+ |
| Binfield | 4,851 | 17 | 6 | A− |
| Winkfield Row | 1,756 | 9.1 | 3 | A+ |
| Crowthorne | 15,196 | 20.3 | 6.7 | B |
| Ascot | 24,003 | 18.8 | 9.6 | B |
| Wokingham | 50,320 | 18.3 | 8.6 | B |
| Bagshot | 5,930 | 28.2 | 12.9 | C |
Bracknell records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Newell Green, 1.7 miles away, records 17.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Bracknell’s 31.9.
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 Bracknell 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 Bracknell
Is Bracknell safe?
Police recorded 31.9 violent and sexual offences and 13.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Bracknell’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 27% of UK towns. Among 89 UK towns of 55,000 to 106,000 people, Bracknell is 15th from the least crime. 13% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Bracknell?
By council ward, Warfield Harvest Ride, Crown Wood and Great Hollands South record the least violent and household crime per resident: 14.9, 20.5 and 25.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 75.4 in Wildridings and Central.
Is crime going up in Bracknell?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 10% and anti-social behaviour fell 10%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Bracknell?
Violence & sexual offences: 2,457 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (633) and other theft (516), with 834 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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