Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Iver Heath stands out for vehicle crime: 2.5 times the rate of a typical town its size
It has less violent crime than 73% of UK towns, but less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than only 17%. Violence recorded locally dropped 14% in a year. Iver Heath’s overall Safety Grade is B− (#25 of 39 in Buckinghamshire): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Its police logs show 16.5 violent and sexual offences and 15.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Iver Heath
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 14% less violent crime per resident in Iver Heath 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 fell 19% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 518 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people, Iver Heath has the 239th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Burghfield Common, Shinfield and Barnton, higher than Ballycastle, Freckleton and Stone Cross. 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. 30% of Iver Heath’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.
What’s behind Iver Heath’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 501 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Iver Heath against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
1 in 3 Iver Heath residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
30% 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.
Iver Heath’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, Iver Heath runs highest on vehicle crime (5 per 1,000 against 2), drugs (2.5 per 1,000 against 1) and shoplifting (3.3 per 1,000 against 1.8). Violence & sexual offences and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 74 | 14.4 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 28 | 5.4 | 8.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 26 | 5 | 2 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 25 | 4.9 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 20 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 20 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 17 | 3.3 | 1.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 14 | 2.7 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 13 | 2.5 | 1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 6 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 3 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 3 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 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.
How crime in Iver Heath 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 -14% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -19% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -20% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -20% (towns its size +0%).
Police in Iver Heath identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 77% of Iver Heath’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 21% 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 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. 183 crimes.
Iver Heath is 239th of 518 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 236 | Ballycastle Causeway Coast and Glens | 5,628 | 22.2 | 10 | 5.8 | B− |
| 237 | Freckleton Lancashire | 4,478 | 22 | 10.2 | 3.1 | B− |
| 238 | Stone Cross East Sussex | 5,036 | 24.2 | 8 | 5.7 | B− |
| 239 | Iver Heath Buckinghamshire | 5,150 | 16.5 | 15.9 | 11.1 | B− |
| 240 | Telscombe Cliffs East Sussex | 4,237 | 24.5 | 8 | 5.4 | B− |
| 241 | Great Denham Bedfordshire | 4,363 | 20.4 | 12.2 | 5 | B− |
| 242 | Handsacre and Armitage Staffordshire | 4,837 | 23.8 | 8.8 | 1.8 | 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 Iver Heath, and others in Buckinghamshire.
Crime in Iver Heath 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 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 7 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Two people died in collisions on Iver Heath’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 24 collisions with injuries inside Iver Heath in five years, in which two people died (1 was a pedestrian). 8 people were 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, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Iver Heath’s two people are context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Iver Heath’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 4 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Iver Heath had 8.
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 Iver Heath’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Iver Heath
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iver Heath | 5,150 | 16.5 | 15.9 | B− |
| Iver | 3,267 | 41.2 | 20.1 | D |
| New Denham | 1,790 | 30.2 | 17.5 | C− |
| Denham | 1,482 | 23.4 | 19.6 | C |
| Richings Park | 1,787 | 24.7 | 23.7 | C− |
| Stoke Poges | 3,920 | 18.1 | 10.5 | B |
| Gerrards Cross | 8,117 | 14.4 | 14.1 | B |
| Slough | 166,868 | 43.4 | 20.7 | D |
Iver Heath records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Stoke Poges, 2.8 miles away, records 18.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Iver Heath’s 16.5.
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 Iver Heath 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 Iver Heath
Is Iver Heath safe?
Police recorded 16.5 violent and sexual offences and 15.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Iver Heath’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 50% of UK towns. Among 518 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people, Iver Heath is 239th from the least crime. 30% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Iver Heath?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 14%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 19%, shoplifting and theft fell 20% and anti-social behaviour fell 20%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Iver Heath?
Violence & sexual offences: 74 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (26) and criminal damage & arson (25), with 28 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Iver Heath compare with Hillingdon?
Hillingdon records 33.4 violent and sexual offences and 23 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Iver Heath’s 16.5 and 15.9, 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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