Photo: Richard Humphrey · CC BY-SA 2.0Burglary, vehicle crime and damage per resident is lower in Warboys than in 74% of UK towns
Of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, 66% record more crime per resident. Violence recorded locally climbed 18% in a year. Across all the graded crimes, Warboys lands on B (#17 of 50 in Cambridgeshire): less crime per resident than 61% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Its police logs show 21.4 violent and sexual offences and 6.6 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 Warboys
Less crime than many places its size
Of 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Warboys has the 253rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Whitburn, Indian Queens, Fraddon and St Columb Road and Alvechurch, higher than Durrington, Lakenheath and Branston. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 18% more violent crime per resident in Warboys than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Warboys’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 362 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Warboys 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 Warboys’s neighbourhoods rank in England
31% 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.
Warboys’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.
How crime in Warboys 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 +18% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -50% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour -16% (towns its size +0%).
Police in Warboys identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 78% of Warboys’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 8% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (68% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 9% 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. 122 crimes.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Warboys runs highest on other crime (2.3 per 1,000 against 1.5).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 102 | 23.6 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 38 | 8.8 | 8.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 10 | 2.3 | 1.5 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 9 | 2.1 | 4.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 9 | 2.1 | 1 |
| Public order | not graded | 8 | 1.9 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 8 | 1.9 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 4 | 0.9 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 3 | 0.7 | 2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 2 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 1.8 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
“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.
Towns its size: Warboys comes 253rd of 706
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | Hemingford Grey Cambridgeshire | 3,372 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 3.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 48 | Girton Cambridgeshire | 4,384 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 4.9 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 152 | Bar Hill Cambridgeshire | 3,899 | 13.6 | 10.3 | 18.3 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 162 | Haddenham Cambridgeshire | 3,050 | 16.2 | 8.1 | 3 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 250 | Durrington Wiltshire | 5,718 | 19.4 | 8.5 | 4.3 | B |
| 251 | Lakenheath Suffolk | 4,567 | 19 | 8.9 | 4.1 | B |
| 252 | Branston Lincolnshire | 4,285 | 22.6 | 5.3 | 5.4 | B |
| 253 | Warboys Cambridgeshire | 4,318 | 21.4 | 6.6 | 3.4 | B |
| 254 | Llantwit Major South Glamorgan | 5,348 | 21.4 | 6.6 | 13 | B |
| 255 | Elton Cheshire | 3,293 | 22.1 | 6 | 2.7 | B |
| 256 | Bilton East Riding of Yorkshire | 3,657 | 14.2 | 13.9 | 18 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 706 | 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 Warboys, and others in Cambridgeshire.
Crime in Warboys 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 4 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 2 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 Warboys’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 22 collisions with injuries inside Warboys in five years. 5 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 2 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Warboys is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Warboys’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; Warboys had 5.
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 Warboys’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Warboys
Warboys records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Ramsey and St Ives record more. Bury, 2.7 miles away, records 20.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Warboys’s 21.4.
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 Warboys 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 Warboys
Is Warboys safe?
Police recorded 21.4 violent and sexual offences and 6.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Warboys’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 61% of UK towns. Among 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Warboys is 253rd from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Warboys?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 18%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 50%, shoplifting and theft fell 41% and anti-social behaviour fell 16%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Warboys?
Violence & sexual offences: 102 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other crime (10) and criminal damage & arson (9), with 38 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Warboys 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 Warboys’s 21.4 and 6.6, 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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