Photo: Christine Johnstone · CC BY-SA 2.0Frodsham records public order at 2.2 times the rate of a typical town its size
Police recorded 70 cases of public order in Frodsham in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 7.7 per 1,000 against a typical 3.6. Violence recorded locally held about level in a year. Weighing it all, Frodsham earns B− for safety (#28 of 46 in Cheshire), with close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area over September 2023 to August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Frodsham
Less crime than many places its size
Of 487 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000 people, Frodsham has the 170th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Farnham Common and Farnham Royal, Liphook and Coppull, higher than Esher, Old Windsor and Wraysbury and Hadleigh. 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. 16% of Frodsham’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 15% 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 Frodsham’s B− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 886 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Frodsham 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
Against the typical town its size, Frodsham runs highest on public order (7.7 per 1,000 against 3.6). Anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 213 | 23.4 | 22.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 70 | 7.7 | 3.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 59 | 6.5 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 40 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 27 | 3 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 19 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 18 | 2 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 15 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 12 | 1.3 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 7 | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 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.
Set against 487 towns its size, Frodsham is 170th
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | 6,763 | 9.6 | 5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 39 | Lymm Cheshire | 11,547 | 16.2 | 6.2 | 6.2 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 41 | Bollington Cheshire | 7,236 | 16.4 | 6.1 | 4.1 | A− |
| 42 | Culcheth Cheshire | 6,722 | 17.5 | 5.1 | 5.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 45 | Holmes Chapel Cheshire | 6,674 | 18.8 | 4 | 3.9 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 167 | Esher Surrey | 9,484 | 20 | 12.3 | 9.9 | B− |
| 168 | Old Windsor and Wraysbury Berkshire | 7,689 | 20.8 | 11.6 | 6.8 | B− |
| 169 | Hadleigh Suffolk | 8,638 | 24.9 | 7.5 | 7.1 | B− |
| 170 | Frodsham Cheshire | 9,101 | 24 | 8.6 | 7.7 | B− |
| 171 | Burghfield Common Berkshire | 6,216 | 20.4 | 12.2 | 12.3 | B− |
| 172 | Radcliffe on Trent Nottinghamshire | 7,205 | 22.5 | 10.2 | 9.4 | B− |
| 173 | Barnton Cheshire | 6,245 | 27.4 | 5.3 | 3.3 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 487 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | 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 Frodsham, and others in Cheshire.
1 in 6 Frodsham residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
37% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 15% 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.
Frodsham’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.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 64% of Frodsham’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 15% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (60% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 5% 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. 300 crimes.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“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 +3% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -13% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -31% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -24% (towns its size +0%).
For every 1,000 residents, about 24 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
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 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Where in Frodsham police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 73 | 37% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 69 | 48% violent |
| Nightclubs | 53 | 34% violent |
| Shopping areas | 24 | 25% violent |
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 Frodsham. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Frodsham’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 54 collisions with injuries inside Frodsham in five years. 11 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Frodsham is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, Frodsham had 24.8 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (16.7).
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 Frodsham’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Frodsham
Frodsham records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Kingsley, 2.5 miles away, records 9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Frodsham’s 24.
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 Frodsham 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 Frodsham
Is Frodsham safe?
Police recorded 24 violent and sexual offences and 8.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Frodsham’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 50% of UK towns. Among 487 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000 people, Frodsham is 170th from the least crime. 16% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Frodsham?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 13%, shoplifting and theft fell 31% and anti-social behaviour fell 24%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
Is Frodsham town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 53 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 34% of them violent. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in December and was lowest in July.
What is the most common crime in Frodsham?
Violence & sexual offences: 213 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (70) and criminal damage & arson (40), with 59 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Frodsham compare with Ellesmere Port?
Ellesmere Port records 44.3 violent and sexual offences and 10.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Frodsham’s 24 and 8.6, 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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