Photo: David Hillas · CC BY-SA 2.0Stoke Mandeville has more burglary, vehicle crime and damage per resident than 67% of UK towns
Year on year, 28.5 violent and sexual offences and 12.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur per 1,000 residents. A Safety Grade of C follows from crimes police recorded inside Stoke Mandeville’s built-up area over the years September 2023 to August 2026: #34 of 39 in Buckinghamshire. By contrast, recorded violence fell 24% in a year. Of all the kinds of crime, other theft is where Stoke Mandeville departs most from towns its size: 5.6 per 1,000 against 3.2.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Stoke Mandeville
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 24% less violent crime per resident in Stoke Mandeville than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Stoke Mandeville has the 653rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Ogmore Vale, Terrington St Clement and Bermuda, higher than Arundel, Smalley and Goff's Oak. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Stoke Mandeville’s C for safety
A fairly firm grade. Built on 333 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Stoke Mandeville against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Police in Stoke Mandeville identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 36% of Stoke Mandeville’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” (58% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 6% 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. 121 crimes.
How crime in Stoke Mandeville 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 -24% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +12% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -25% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -15% (towns its size +0%).
How Stoke Mandeville’s neighbourhoods rank in England
0% 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.
Stoke Mandeville’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.
Stoke Mandeville is 653rd of 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 8 | Marlow Bottom Buckinghamshire | 3,339 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 1.7 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 28 | Walter's Ash and Naphill Buckinghamshire | 3,893 | 9.3 | 3.6 | 3.6 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 96 | Seer Green Buckinghamshire | 2,582 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 1.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 153 | Long Crendon Buckinghamshire | 2,495 | 12.7 | 6.8 | 3.5 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 650 | Arundel West Sussex | 3,035 | 21.3 | 19.1 | 25.8 | C |
| 651 | Smalley Derbyshire | 2,201 | 32.1 | 8.3 | 4.2 | C |
| 652 | Goff's Oak Hertfordshire | 3,503 | 28.4 | 12.2 | 8.6 | C |
| 653 | Stoke Mandeville Buckinghamshire | 2,855 | 28.5 | 12.1 | 7.7 | C |
| 654 | Knowsley Merseyside | 2,345 | 25.2 | 15.5 | 4.8 | C |
| 655 | Chartham Kent | 3,569 | 28.9 | 11.8 | 5.5 | C |
| 656 | Kirkheaton West Yorkshire | 3,492 | 31.4 | 9.3 | 2.8 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 856 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 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 Stoke Mandeville, and others in Buckinghamshire.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Stoke Mandeville runs highest on other theft (5.6 per 1,000 against 3.2) and criminal damage & arson (6 per 1,000 against 4.5).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 64 | 22.4 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 23 | 8.1 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 17 | 6 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 16 | 5.6 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 11 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 8 | 2.8 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 7 | 2.5 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 4 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 4 | 1.4 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 2 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 1.8 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
“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 of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Stoke Mandeville 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 10 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 6 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 Stoke Mandeville’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 29 collisions with injuries inside Stoke Mandeville in five years. 7 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 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 Stoke Mandeville is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Stoke Mandeville’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Stoke Mandeville 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 Stoke Mandeville’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Stoke Mandeville
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stoke Mandeville | 2,855 | 28.5 | 12.1 | C |
| Weston Turville | 1,835 | 11.8 | 8.2 | A− |
| Aylesbury | 87,966 | 39.9 | 11.9 | C− |
| Broughton | 2,168 | 58.1 | 13.1 | D |
| Wendover | 8,729 | 13.6 | 6.5 | A− |
| Bierton | 1,251 | 16.5 | 5.9 | A− |
| Aston Clinton | 5,511 | 19.7 | 8 | B |
| Stone | 2,081 | 13.5 | 7.5 | A− |
Stoke Mandeville records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Aylesbury and Broughton record more. Weston Turville, 1.3 miles away, records 11.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Stoke Mandeville’s 28.5.
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 Stoke Mandeville 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 Stoke Mandeville
Is Stoke Mandeville safe?
Police recorded 28.5 violent and sexual offences and 12.1 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Stoke Mandeville’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 34% of UK towns. Among 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Stoke Mandeville is 653rd from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Stoke Mandeville?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 24%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 12%, shoplifting and theft fell 25% and anti-social behaviour fell 15%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Stoke Mandeville?
Violence & sexual offences: 64 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (17) and other theft (16), with 23 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Stoke Mandeville 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 Stoke Mandeville’s 28.5 and 12.1, 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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