Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0Hale Bank stands out for drugs: 9.8 times the rate of a typical town its size
Weighing it all, Hale Bank earns C− for safety, with more crime per resident than 78% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area over September 2023 to August 2026. Year on year, 38.7 violent and sexual offences and 10.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur per 1,000 residents. Of the 1,541 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, 10% record more crime per resident. Recorded violence fell 9% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hale Bank
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 9% less violent crime per resident in Hale Bank than in the year before; across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The C− for Hale Bank, and how it is built
A fairly firm grade. Built on 241 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hale Bank 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, Hale Bank runs highest on drugs (6.2 per 1,000 against 0.6), public order (12.4 per 1,000 against 2.4) and violence & sexual offences (35.2 per 1,000 against 16.6).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 57 | 35.2 | 16.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 20 | 12.4 | 2.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 16 | 9.9 | 5.3 |
| Drugs | not graded | 10 | 6.2 | 0.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 9 | 5.6 | 2.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 8 | 4.9 | 1.5 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 7 | 4.3 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 4 | 2.5 | 0 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 3 | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 2 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.6 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.6 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
How Hale Bank compares with UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 4 | Guilden Sutton Cheshire | 1,462 | 4.1 | 1.6 | 1.1 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 39 | High Legh Cheshire | 1,145 | 5.5 | 3.8 | 2.3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 72 | Kingsley Cheshire | 1,551 | 9 | 2.6 | 2.6 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 95 | Mickle Trafford Cheshire | 1,840 | 10.7 | 1.8 | 2 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 1103 | Llanbadarn Fawr Dyfed | 1,766 | 41.4 | 7.9 | 27.6 | C− |
| 1104 | Whitland Dyfed | 1,907 | 38.5 | 11 | 4.9 | C− |
| 1105 | Pontyates Dyfed | 1,475 | 40.9 | 8.6 | 4.8 | C− |
| 1106 | Hale Bank Cheshire | 1,618 | 38.7 | 10.9 | 9.7 | C− |
| 1107 | Whaplode Lincolnshire | 1,106 | 38.3 | 11.5 | 16 | C− |
| 1108 | Llanddulas Clwyd | 1,097 | 32.5 | 17.3 | 15.8 | C− |
| 1109 | Malpas Cheshire | 1,361 | 40.2 | 10.5 | 5.9 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 1214 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | 1,928 | 259 | 64.7 | 57.2 | 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 Hale Bank, and others in Cheshire.
How crime in Hale Bank has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 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 +3%).
Crime in Hale Bank 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 11 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 9 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 Hale Bank’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 6 collisions with injuries inside Hale Bank in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Hale Bank is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Hale Bank’s size at the median for UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people would see about 1 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Hale Bank had 1.
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 Hale Bank’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Hale Bank
Hale Bank records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Hale, 1.5 miles away, records 19.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hale Bank’s 38.7.
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 Hale Bank 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 Hale Bank
Is Hale Bank safe?
Police recorded 38.7 violent and sexual offences and 10.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hale Bank’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 22% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Hale Bank has less crime per resident than 10%.
Is crime going up in Hale Bank?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 9%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 5%, shoplifting and theft rose 17% and anti-social behaviour rose 45%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Hale Bank?
Violence & sexual offences: 57 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (20) and drugs (10), with 16 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hale Bank compare with Liverpool?
Liverpool records 54 violent and sexual offences and 20.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Hale Bank’s 38.7 and 10.9, 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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