Photo: Peter S · CC BY-SA 2.0Less crime per resident is recorded in Hazlemere than in 98% of UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people
It has less violent crime than 80% of UK towns, and less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 71%. Year on year, 14.5 violent and sexual offences and 7.0 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur per 1,000 residents. Violent crime barely moved in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hazlemere
Less crime than most places its size
Of 290 UK towns of 14,000 to 27,000 people, Hazlemere has the 6th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Church Village, Worcester Park and Stoneleigh and Lee-on-the-Solent, higher than Ashtead, Streetly and Ingleby Barwick. 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. 53% of Hazlemere’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.
Inside Hazlemere’s A− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 1,289 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hazlemere 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
Anti-social behaviour and shoplifting sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 293 | 14.6 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 77 | 3.8 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 57 | 2.8 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 56 | 2.8 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 51 | 2.5 | 2.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 45 | 2.2 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 43 | 2.1 | 2.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 29 | 1.4 | 6.1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 24 | 1.2 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 13 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 5 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0 | 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.
Most Hazlemere residents live in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
78% 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.
Hazlemere’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.
6th of 290: Hazlemere among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 3 | Ashtead Surrey | 14,830 | 12.6 | 7.1 | 4.5 | 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− |
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| 31 | Amersham Buckinghamshire | 17,377 | 18.6 | 9.7 | 9.5 | B |
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| 53 | Marlow Buckinghamshire | 14,641 | 22.1 | 9.7 | 13.2 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 81 | Newport Pagnell Buckinghamshire | 15,250 | 24 | 11 | 9.8 | B− |
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| 93 | Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire | 14,142 | 21 | 15.4 | 12.8 | 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 Hazlemere, and others in Buckinghamshire.
Crime in Hazlemere 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 8 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 Tylers Green and Loudwater, Ridgeway East and Hazlemere; highest in Penn Wood and Old Amersham
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tylers Green and Loudwater | 4,205 | 8 | 6.4 | |
| Ridgeway East | 1,958 | 12.6 | 4.8 | |
| Hazlemere | 9,102 | 15.9 | 7 | |
| Penn Wood and Old Amersham | 4,741 | 18.1 | 8.6 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 70 | 31% drugs, public order & other |
| Petrol stations | 66 | 65% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 27 | 37% shoplifting & theft |
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 Hazlemere. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Hazlemere’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 67% of Hazlemere’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 7% 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 5% 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. 436 crimes.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“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 +1% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +45% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +31% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -3% (towns its size -4%).
No one died in a collision on Hazlemere’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 47 collisions with injuries inside Hazlemere in five years. 7 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 on foot and 0 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 Hazlemere’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hazlemere’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Hazlemere’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; Hazlemere had 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 Hazlemere’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Hazlemere
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazlemere | 20,006 | 14.5 | 7 | A− |
| Great Kingshill | 1,669 | 8.8 | 4 | A+ |
| Hughenden Valley | 1,814 | 5.2 | 2.6 | A+ |
| High Wycombe | 83,541 | 40.6 | 17.2 | D |
| Little Kingshill | 1,471 | 5 | 6.6 | A+ |
| Downley | 2,655 | 15.9 | 6.3 | A− |
| Prestwood and Great Missenden | 7,600 | 19.6 | 11.2 | B− |
| Walter's Ash and Naphill | 3,893 | 9.3 | 3.6 | A+ |
Hazlemere records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Great Kingshill, 1.8 miles away, records 8.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hazlemere’s 14.5.
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 Hazlemere 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 Hazlemere
Is Hazlemere safe?
Police recorded 14.5 violent and sexual offences and 7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hazlemere’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, Hazlemere is 6th from the least crime. 53% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Hazlemere?
By council ward, Tylers Green and Loudwater, Ridgeway East and Hazlemere record the least violent and household crime per resident: 8, 12.6 and 15.9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 18.1 in Penn Wood and Old Amersham.
Is crime going up in Hazlemere?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 45%, shoplifting and theft rose 31% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Hazlemere?
Violence & sexual offences: 293 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (57) and other theft (56), with 77 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hazlemere compare with High Wycombe?
High Wycombe records 40.6 violent and sexual offences and 17.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Hazlemere’s 14.5 and 7, 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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