Photo: Peter S · CC BY-SA 2.0Violent crime per resident is higher in Fenstanton than in 64% of UK towns
Violence recorded locally dropped 9% in a year. The typical town its size sees 2 cases of vehicle crime per 1,000 residents; Fenstanton sees 3.3, or 10 in the 12 months to August 2026. Its letter for safety is C+, worked out from crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area over September 2023 to August 2026: #39 of 50 in Cambridgeshire. Police counts work out at 28.3 violent and sexual offences and 10.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Fenstanton
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 9% less violent crime per resident in Fenstanton 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, Fenstanton has the 628th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Sapcote, Markyate and Picket Piece, higher than Belton, Bruton and Madeley. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Fenstanton’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 348 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Fenstanton 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 Fenstanton’s neighbourhoods rank in England
65% 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.
Fenstanton’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.
Fenstanton is 628th 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 45 | Hemingford Grey Cambridgeshire | 3,372 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 3.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 50 | Duxford Cambridgeshire | 2,216 | 9.9 | 5 | 1.2 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 62 | Over Cambridgeshire | 2,898 | 10.8 | 4.6 | 1.3 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 105 | Coates and Eastrea Cambridgeshire | 2,313 | 14 | 3.6 | 1.6 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 625 | Belton Lincolnshire | 2,303 | 24 | 14.3 | 5.5 | C+ |
| 626 | Bruton Somerset | 2,816 | 25.9 | 12.4 | 11 | C+ |
| 627 | Madeley Staffordshire | 3,293 | 32.5 | 6 | 3.3 | C+ |
| 628 | Fenstanton Cambridgeshire | 3,015 | 28.3 | 10.2 | 2.5 | C+ |
| 629 | Kirkbymoorside North Yorkshire | 2,763 | 27.6 | 10.9 | 6.3 | C+ |
| 630 | Eton Wick Berkshire | 2,121 | 25.9 | 12.6 | 3.2 | C+ |
| 631 | Lydd Kent | 3,911 | 28.4 | 10.2 | 4.4 | 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 Fenstanton, and others in Cambridgeshire.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Fenstanton runs highest on vehicle crime (3.3 per 1,000 against 2) and violence & sexual offences (25.9 per 1,000 against 22.4).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 78 | 25.9 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 28 | 9.3 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 14 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 10 | 3.3 | 2 |
| Public order | not graded | 6 | 2 | 3.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 5 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 3 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 2 | 0.7 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 2 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 1 | 0.3 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| 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.
Police in Fenstanton identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 61% of Fenstanton’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” (61% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 18% 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. 124 crimes.
How crime in Fenstanton 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 -9% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +7% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour -53% (towns its size +0%).
Crime in Fenstanton 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 0 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 Fenstanton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 9 collisions with injuries inside Fenstanton in five years. 4 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 Fenstanton is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Fenstanton’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 3 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Fenstanton had 4.
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 Fenstanton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Fenstanton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenstanton | 3,015 | 28.3 | 10.2 | C+ |
| Hemingford Grey | 3,372 | 6.8 | 7.8 | A |
| Hilton | 1,052 | 7.6 | 6 | A+ |
| St Ives | 16,818 | 26.2 | 9.3 | C+ |
| Swavesey | 2,739 | 26 | 10.8 | C+ |
| Needingworth | 2,059 | 14.3 | 5.3 | A− |
| Houghton | 1,368 | 13.2 | 6.1 | A− |
| Over | 2,898 | 10.8 | 4.6 | A |
Fenstanton records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Hemingford Grey, 1.7 miles away, records 6.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Fenstanton’s 28.3.
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 Fenstanton 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 Fenstanton
Is Fenstanton safe?
Police recorded 28.3 violent and sexual offences and 10.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Fenstanton’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 38% of UK towns. Among 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Fenstanton is 628th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Fenstanton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 9%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 7%, shoplifting and theft fell 93% and anti-social behaviour fell 53%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Fenstanton?
Violence & sexual offences: 78 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (14) and vehicle crime (10), with 28 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Fenstanton compare with Huntingdon?
Huntingdon records 44.6 violent and sexual offences and 16.4 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Fenstanton’s 28.3 and 10.2, 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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