Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Less crime per resident is recorded in Sandhurst than in 98% of UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people
The yearly rates were 14.9 violent and sexual offences and 6.8 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents. Violent crime was down 11% in a year. Add to that, on violence it beats 78% of UK towns, and on burglary, vehicle crime and damage 73%.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Sandhurst
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 11% less violent crime per resident in Sandhurst than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 20% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 290 UK towns of 14,000 to 27,000 people, Sandhurst has the 7th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Worcester Park and Stoneleigh, Lee-on-the-Solent and Great Bookham and Fetcham, higher than Streetly, Ingleby Barwick and Hazlemere. 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. 41% of Sandhurst’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.
Sandhurst grades A− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 1,314 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Sandhurst against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
A third of Sandhurst residents live in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
80% 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.
Sandhurst’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.
Sandhurst places 7th of 290 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 4 | Streetly West Midlands | 16,790 | 11.2 | 9 | 5.3 | A− |
| 5 | Ingleby Barwick North Yorkshire | 23,380 | 15.2 | 5.7 | 10.3 | A− |
| 6 | Hazlemere Buckinghamshire | 20,006 | 14.5 | 7 | 4.6 | A− |
| 7 | Sandhurst Berkshire | 20,220 | 14.9 | 6.8 | 4.9 | A− |
| 8 | Hockley and Hawkwell Essex | 15,430 | 14 | 7.9 | 4.1 | A− |
| 9 | Brackley Northamptonshire | 16,180 | 17 | 5.1 | 7.1 | A− |
| 10 | Church Village Mid Glamorgan | 14,162 | 16.7 | 5.9 | 6 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 24 | Crowthorne Berkshire | 15,196 | 20.3 | 6.7 | 10.8 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 32 | Ascot Berkshire | 24,003 | 18.8 | 9.6 | 6.6 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 106 | Thatcham Berkshire | 25,537 | 29.7 | 8 | 10.3 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 290 | Rhyl Clwyd | 26,982 | 89.1 | 22.9 | 29 | 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 Sandhurst, and others in Berkshire.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime and violence & sexual offences sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 266 | 13.2 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 126 | 6.2 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 62 | 3.1 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 52 | 2.6 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 51 | 2.5 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 26 | 1.3 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 23 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 17 | 0.8 | 6.1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 11 | 0.5 | 2.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 11 | 0.5 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 7 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 5 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 3 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 2 | 0.1 | 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.
Police in Sandhurst identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 79% of Sandhurst’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 12% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (57% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 4% of violent and 3% 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. 500 crimes.
How crime in Sandhurst 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 -11% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -20% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -39% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -37% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Sandhurst 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 5 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 4 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Lowest recorded crime in Little Sandhurst and Wellington, College Town and Owlsmoor; highest in Central Sandhurst
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Sandhurst and Wellington | 4,260 | 11.7 | 4.8 | |
| College Town | 5,865 | 12.1 | 4.6 | |
| Owlsmoor | 5,011 | 19 | 7.1 | |
| Central Sandhurst | 5,084 | 16.8 | 10.6 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 198 | 51% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 58 | 41% anti-social behaviour |
| Petrol stations | 31 | 32% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live. 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 Sandhurst. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Sandhurst’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Sandhurst’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 45 collisions with injuries inside Sandhurst in five years. 9 people were killed or seriously injured: 4 on foot and 2 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 Sandhurst’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sandhurst’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Sandhurst’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 24 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Sandhurst 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 Sandhurst’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Sandhurst
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandhurst | 20,220 | 14.9 | 6.8 | A− |
| Blackwater | 7,170 | 21.4 | 9.4 | B− |
| Hawley | 2,581 | 13.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| Crowthorne | 15,196 | 20.3 | 6.7 | B |
| Yateley | 14,676 | 17 | 8.2 | B+ |
| Camberley | 36,787 | 27.7 | 10.8 | C+ |
| Minley | 1,041 | 6.7 | 2.6 | A+ |
| Frimley | 15,101 | 26.4 | 9.7 | C+ |
Sandhurst records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Hawley, 1.5 miles away, records 13.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Sandhurst’s 14.9.
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 Sandhurst 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 Sandhurst
Is Sandhurst safe?
Police recorded 14.9 violent and sexual offences and 6.8 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Sandhurst’s built-up area). That earns an A− for safety: less crime per resident than 79% of UK towns. Among 290 UK towns of 14,000 to 27,000 people, Sandhurst is 7th from the least crime. 41% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Sandhurst?
By council ward, Little Sandhurst and Wellington, College Town and Owlsmoor record the least violent and household crime per resident: 11.7, 12.1 and 19 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 16.8 in Central Sandhurst.
Is crime going up in Sandhurst?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 11%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 20%, shoplifting and theft fell 39% and anti-social behaviour fell 37%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Sandhurst?
Violence & sexual offences: 266 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (62) and public order (52), with 126 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Sandhurst compare with Bracknell?
Bracknell records 31.9 violent and sexual offences and 13.5 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Sandhurst’s 14.9 and 6.8, 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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