Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Twyford records shoplifting at 6.9 times the rate of a typical town its size
More crime per resident is recorded in 86% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Across all the graded crimes, Twyford lands on A− (#2 of 30 in Berkshire): less crime per resident than 80% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Violent crime was up 28% in a year. Annual rates stand at 11.8 violent and sexual offences and 9.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Twyford
Less crime than most places its size
Of 430 UK towns of 6,000 to 11,000 people, Twyford has the 25th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Bearsted, Hagley and Chinnor, higher than Deeping St James, Wingerworth and Tarleton and Hesketh Bank. 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. 47% of Twyford’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 28% more violent crime per resident in Twyford than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Twyford’s A− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 497 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Twyford 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, Twyford runs highest on shoplifting (12.6 per 1,000 against 1.8) and vehicle crime (3.3 per 1,000 against 2). Public order and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoplifting | not graded | 102 | 12.6 | 1.8 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 97 | 12 | 22.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 30 | 3.7 | 4.5 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 30 | 3.7 | 8.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 27 | 3.3 | 2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 17 | 2.1 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 14 | 1.7 | 3.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 12 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 9 | 1.1 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 6 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 5 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 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.
Most Twyford residents live in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
100% 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.
Twyford’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 Twyford 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 +28% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +1% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +6% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -48% (towns its size +0%).
Twyford against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | 6,763 | 9.6 | 5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | Deeping St James Lincolnshire | 7,255 | 14.2 | 6.1 | 3.3 | A− |
| 23 | Wingerworth Derbyshire | 6,404 | 14.9 | 5.6 | 3 | A− |
| 24 | Tarleton and Hesketh Bank Lancashire | 8,756 | 16.4 | 4.3 | 3.4 | A− |
| 25 | Twyford Berkshire | 8,072 | 11.8 | 9.4 | 13.4 | A− |
| 26 | Ashley Heath Dorset | 7,151 | 10.9 | 10.4 | 4.9 | A− |
| 27 | Ballyclare Antrim and Newtownabbey | 10,850 | 15.2 | 6.1 | 4.7 | A− |
| 28 | Denmead Hampshire | 6,509 | 16 | 5.3 | 2.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 87 | Spencers Wood and Three Mile Cross Berkshire | 7,612 | 19.3 | 7.9 | 5.6 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 107 | Winnersh Berkshire | 8,904 | 20.5 | 8.2 | 8.4 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 155 | Old Windsor and Wraysbury Berkshire | 7,689 | 20.8 | 11.6 | 6.8 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 158 | Burghfield Common Berkshire | 6,216 | 20.4 | 12.2 | 12.3 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 430 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | 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 Twyford, and others in Berkshire.
Crime in Twyford 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 9 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 15 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 Hurst, Twyford and Remenham, Wargrave and Ruscombe; highest in Remenham, Wargrave and Ruscombe
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurst | 835 | 10 | 5.6 | |
| Twyford | 6,121 | 10.7 | 9.6 | |
| Remenham, Wargrave and Ruscombe | 1,116 | 17.9 | 7.2 |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Remenham, Wargrave and Ruscombe records 1.7× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Twyford.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Twyford’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 71% of Twyford’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 9% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (60% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% 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. 175 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Twyford’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 33 collisions with injuries inside Twyford in five years. 13 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 4 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Twyford is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, Twyford had 31.8 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (16.7).
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 Twyford’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Twyford
Twyford records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Woodley and Winnersh record more. Charvil, 1 miles away, records 10.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Twyford’s 11.8.
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 Twyford 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 Twyford
Is Twyford safe?
Police recorded 11.8 violent and sexual offences and 9.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Twyford’s built-up area). That earns an A− for safety: less crime per resident than 80% of UK towns. Among 430 UK towns of 6,000 to 11,000 people, Twyford is 25th from the least crime. 47% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Twyford?
By council ward, Hurst, Twyford and Remenham, Wargrave and Ruscombe record the least violent and household crime per resident: 10, 10.7 and 17.9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 17.9 in Remenham, Wargrave and Ruscombe.
Is crime going up in Twyford?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 28%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 6% and anti-social behaviour fell 48%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Twyford?
Shoplifting: 102 in the 12 months to August 2026. Next came violence & sexual offences (97) and criminal damage & arson (30), with 30 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Twyford compare with Reading?
Reading records 39.6 violent and sexual offences and 15.5 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Twyford’s 11.8 and 9.4, 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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