Anthony Hall · Photo: Bikeboy · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Aston Clinton sees less crime than two in three UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people
Annual rates stand at 19.7 violent and sexual offences and 8.0 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents. Scored on crimes police recorded inside Aston Clinton’s built-up area across September 2023 to August 2026, the town lands on B for safety: #12 of 39 in Buckinghamshire. Violent crime was down 27% in a year. Drugs runs at 1.8 per 1,000 residents here, against 1 in a typical town its size: police recorded 10 in the 12 months to August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Aston Clinton
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 27% less violent crime per resident in Aston Clinton 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 518 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people, Aston Clinton has the 155th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Thorpe Hesley, Saxilby and Durrington, higher than Rhoose, Littlestone-on-Sea and Shepperton Green. 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. 28% of Aston Clinton’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 grade: B for Aston Clinton
A fairly firm grade. Built on 458 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Aston Clinton 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 Aston Clinton 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 -27% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -32% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -42% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +14% (towns its size +0%).
Police in Aston Clinton identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 52% of Aston Clinton’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 5% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (70% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 13% 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. 147 crimes.
1 in 4 Aston Clinton residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
56% 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.
Aston Clinton’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Aston Clinton runs highest on drugs (1.8 per 1,000 against 1). Criminal damage & arson and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 96 | 17.4 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 25 | 4.5 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 15 | 2.7 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 13 | 2.4 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 12 | 2.2 | 3.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 11 | 2 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 10 | 1.8 | 1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 8 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 7 | 1.3 | 1.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
“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.
Towns its size: Aston Clinton comes 155th of 518
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 85 | Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire | 4,707 | 13.6 | 9.5 | 4.7 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 113 | Stokenchurch Buckinghamshire | 4,351 | 17.5 | 7.4 | 4.8 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 115 | Haddenham Buckinghamshire | 5,603 | 19.2 | 5.8 | 7.3 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 119 | Woburn Sands Buckinghamshire | 4,315 | 15.4 | 10 | 7 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 152 | Rhoose South Glamorgan | 6,776 | 20.3 | 7.2 | 4.7 | B |
| 153 | Littlestone-on-Sea Kent | 5,271 | 21.4 | 6.1 | 2.8 | B |
| 154 | Shepperton Green Surrey | 4,358 | 19.8 | 7.8 | 3.8 | B |
| 155 | Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire | 5,511 | 19.7 | 8 | 3.6 | B |
| 156 | Kings Worthy Hampshire | 4,631 | 20 | 7.7 | 3.1 | B |
| 157 | Markfield Leicestershire | 4,761 | 16.6 | 11.1 | 3.6 | B |
| 158 | Epworth Lincolnshire | 4,361 | 20.6 | 7.2 | 4.6 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 518 | Stainforth South Yorkshire | 5,999 | 72.5 | 49.7 | 14.4 | 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 Aston Clinton, and others in Buckinghamshire.
Crime in Aston Clinton 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 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 Aston Clinton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 12 collisions with injuries inside Aston Clinton in five years. 1 person was 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 Aston Clinton is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Aston Clinton’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 5 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Aston Clinton had 1.
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 Aston Clinton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Aston Clinton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aston Clinton | 5,511 | 19.7 | 8 | B |
| Weston Turville | 1,835 | 11.8 | 8.2 | A− |
| Wendover | 8,729 | 13.6 | 6.5 | A− |
| Tring | 11,961 | 17.4 | 10.2 | B |
| Broughton | 2,168 | 58.1 | 13.1 | D |
| Stoke Mandeville | 2,855 | 28.5 | 12.1 | C |
| Bierton | 1,251 | 16.5 | 5.9 | A− |
| Cheddington | 1,770 | 11.5 | 3.8 | A |
Aston Clinton records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Broughton and Stoke Mandeville record more. Weston Turville, 1.8 miles away, records 11.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Aston Clinton’s 19.7.
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 Aston Clinton 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 Aston Clinton
Is Aston Clinton safe?
Police recorded 19.7 violent and sexual offences and 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 Aston Clinton’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 62% of UK towns. Among 518 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people, Aston Clinton is 155th from the least crime. 28% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Aston Clinton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 27%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 32%, shoplifting and theft fell 42% and anti-social behaviour rose 14%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Aston Clinton?
Violence & sexual offences: 96 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 other theft (13), with 25 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Aston Clinton compare with Aylesbury?
Aylesbury records 39.9 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Aston Clinton’s 19.7 and 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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