Photo: Steve Daniels · CC BY-SA 2.0Aylesbury records more violent crime per head than 84% of UK towns
Set against the 207 UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, it has less crime per resident than 73% of them. Measured on crimes police recorded inside Aylesbury’s built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026, it earns a Safety Grade of C−: #35 of 39 in Buckinghamshire. Violence recorded locally held about level in a year. For every 1,000 residents, 39.9 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were logged a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Aylesbury
Less crime than many places its size
Of 81 UK towns and cities of 62,000 to 119,000 people, Aylesbury has the 19th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Hemel Hempstead, Paignton and Corby, higher than Shrewsbury, Wallasey and Tamworth. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Aylesbury’s C− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 13,646 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Aylesbury 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, Aylesbury runs highest on other crime (2.4 per 1,000 against 2.1). 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 | 3,327 | 37.8 | 38.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 946 | 10.8 | 10.3 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 776 | 8.8 | 17.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 673 | 7.7 | 7.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 612 | 7 | 6.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 509 | 5.8 | 7.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 369 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 275 | 3.1 | 3.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 215 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 145 | 1.6 | 3.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 102 | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 62 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 55 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 54 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
“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.
How Aylesbury’s neighbourhoods rank in England
36% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 5% 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.
Aylesbury’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.
Police in Aylesbury identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 57% of Aylesbury’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” (59% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 7% 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. 4,747 crimes.
Towns its size: Aylesbury comes 19th of 81
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangor Ards and North Down | 64,596 | 18.9 | 6.4 | 5.4 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 16 | Shrewsbury Shropshire | 76,013 | 37.4 | 12.6 | 19.1 | C− |
| 17 | Wallasey Merseyside | 85,619 | 38.2 | 12 | 7 | C− |
| 18 | Tamworth Staffordshire | 76,074 | 36.8 | 14.7 | 13.4 | C− |
| 19 | Aylesbury Buckinghamshire | 87,966 | 39.9 | 11.9 | 18.1 | C− |
| 20 | Redditch Worcestershire | 81,634 | 37.7 | 14.6 | 14.9 | C− |
| 21 | Cheltenham Gloucestershire | 115,941 | 35.2 | 17.3 | 21 | C− |
| 22 | Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire | 76,511 | 39.5 | 13.3 | 14.5 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 35 | High Wycombe Buckinghamshire | 83,541 | 40.6 | 17.2 | 22.5 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 81 | 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 Aylesbury, and others in Buckinghamshire.
Crime in Aylesbury 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 12 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 19 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 Stone and Waddesdon, Wendover, Halton and Stoke Mandeville and Wing; highest in Aylesbury North
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone and Waddesdon | 8,566 | 26.1 | 5.9 | |
| Wendover, Halton and Stoke Mandeville | 735 | 30.8 | 3.6 | |
| Wing | 5,360 | 26.1 | 9 | |
| Aylesbury West | 11,476 | 26.9 | 9 | |
| Aylesbury South East | 11,610 | 34 | 9.2 | |
| Aylesbury East | 11,159 | 33.5 | 11 | |
| Aston Clinton and Bierton | 1,185 | 32.9 | 14.6 | |
| Aylesbury South West | 11,297 | 40.9 | 12.3 | |
| Aylesbury North West | 13,669 | 48.6 | 15.3 | |
| Aylesbury North | 12,909 | 68.1 | 18.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 1,378 | 57% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 1,124 | 45% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 712 | 49% shoplifting & theft |
| Hospitals | 429 | 55% violent |
| Petrol stations | 411 | 56% shoplifting & theft |
| Nightclubs | 365 | 38% shoplifting & theft |
| Prisons | 256 | 52% drugs, public order & other |
| Bus and coach stations | 146 | 39% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 118 | 36% violent |
| College and university buildings | 61 | 38% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Aylesbury North records 1.9× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Aylesbury. 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 Aylesbury. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Aylesbury’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
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 +3% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles +3% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +4% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -6% (towns its size -2%).
Four people died in collisions on Aylesbury’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 449 collisions with injuries inside Aylesbury in five years, in which four people died (3 were pedestrians). 76 people were killed or seriously injured: 29 on foot and 14 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 Aylesbury’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Aylesbury’s own rate (0.9) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Aylesbury had 17.3 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). 38% 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 Aylesbury’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Aylesbury
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aylesbury | 87,966 | 39.9 | 11.9 | C− |
| Bierton | 1,251 | 16.5 | 5.9 | A− |
| Broughton | 2,168 | 58.1 | 13.1 | D |
| Stoke Mandeville | 2,855 | 28.5 | 12.1 | C |
| Stone | 2,081 | 13.5 | 7.5 | A− |
| Weston Turville | 1,835 | 11.8 | 8.2 | A− |
| Aston Clinton | 5,511 | 19.7 | 8 | B |
| Wingrave | 1,498 | 24.3 | 7.3 | B− |
Aylesbury records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Broughton records more. Bierton, 1.6 miles away, records 16.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Aylesbury’s 39.9.
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
- A prison inside the boundary. police.uk counted 256 at or near a prison (43% violent) and 429 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Aylesbury’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- 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 Aylesbury 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 Aylesbury
Is Aylesbury safe?
Police recorded 39.9 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Aylesbury’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 20% of UK towns. Among 81 UK towns of 62,000 to 119,000 people, Aylesbury is 19th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Aylesbury?
By council ward, Stone and Waddesdon, Wendover, Halton and Stoke Mandeville and Wing record the least violent and household crime per resident: 26.1, 30.8 and 26.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 68.1 in Aylesbury North.
Is crime going up in Aylesbury?
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 held steady and anti-social behaviour fell 6%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Aylesbury town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 365 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 30% of them violent, and Aylesbury North ward records 68.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in June and was lowest in February.
What is the most common crime in Aylesbury?
Violence & sexual offences: 3,327 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (946) and public order (673), with 776 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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