Church of St Cyngar · Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Hope records more violent crime than 66% of UK towns
Behind the grade sit 29.0 violent and sexual offences and 8.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people a year. Violence recorded locally dropped 11% in a year. A Safety Grade of C+ follows from crimes police recorded inside Hope’s built-up area over the years September 2023 to August 2026: #8 of 39 in Clwyd.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hope
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 11% less violent crime per resident in Hope 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 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Hope has the 452nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Ellesmere, Madeley and Fenstanton, higher than Whiston, Edwalton and Stalham. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C+ for Hope
A fairly firm grade. Built on 496 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hope 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 Hope’s neighbourhoods rank in Wales
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The community safety domain scores recorded crime, anti-social behaviour and fire incidents where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Hope’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (community safety domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of Wales’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
How crime in Hope 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 -11% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -8% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +24% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +36% (towns its size +0%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Hope runs highest on anti-social behaviour (12.9 per 1,000 against 8.8), shoplifting (2.5 per 1,000 against 1.8) and burglary (2.3 per 1,000 against 1.9).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 109 | 24.6 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 57 | 12.9 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 19 | 4.3 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 19 | 4.3 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 13 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 11 | 2.5 | 1.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 10 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 7 | 1.6 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 4 | 0.9 | 1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 4 | 0.9 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 2 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0 |
| 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.
Police in Hope identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 63% of Hope’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 11% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (63% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 10% 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. 185 crimes.
Towns its size: Hope comes 452nd of 706
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 31 | Mynydd Isa Clwyd | 4,738 | 12.2 | 3.5 | 1.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 39 | Penrhyn Bay Clwyd | 4,201 | 13 | 3.7 | 4.2 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 45 | Gresford Clwyd | 4,948 | 11.5 | 5.7 | 5.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 73 | Penyffordd Clwyd | 3,822 | 13.9 | 5.2 | 5.6 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 449 | Whiston South Yorkshire | 3,940 | 23 | 14.7 | 4.8 | C+ |
| 450 | Edwalton Nottinghamshire | 4,762 | 28 | 9.7 | 7 | C+ |
| 451 | Stalham Norfolk | 3,383 | 28.2 | 9.7 | 12 | C+ |
| 452 | Hope Clwyd | 4,422 | 29 | 8.9 | 5.5 | C+ |
| 453 | Blackfield and Langley Hampshire | 5,844 | 29.8 | 8.3 | 8.7 | C+ |
| 454 | Battle East Sussex | 5,326 | 25.2 | 13.1 | 14.7 | C+ |
| 455 | Calverley West Yorkshire | 3,988 | 19.6 | 18.7 | 3.6 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 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 Hope, and others in Clwyd.
Crime in Hope 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 8 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.
Lowest recorded crime in Hope, Llanfynydd and Caergwrle; highest in Caergwrle
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope | 1,916 | 23.1 | 5 | |
| Llanfynydd | 524 | 22.3 | 12.7 | |
| Caergwrle | 1,560 | 38 | 10.9 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and recreation grounds | 46 | 48% anti-social behaviour |
| Car parks | 37 | 51% violent |
| Petrol stations | 22 | 50% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Caergwrle records 1.7× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Hope. 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 Hope. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Hope’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Hope’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 17 collisions with injuries inside Hope in five years. 6 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 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 Hope is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Hope’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; Hope had 6.
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 Hope’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Hope
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope | 4,422 | 29 | 8.9 | C+ |
| Llay | 4,666 | 34.7 | 10.9 | C |
| Bradley | 1,316 | 13.4 | 6.8 | A− |
| Gwersyllt | 7,112 | 38.1 | 13.4 | C− |
| Leeswood | 1,948 | 21.7 | 7.4 | B |
| Penyffordd | 3,822 | 13.9 | 5.2 | A |
| Higher Kinnerton | 1,731 | 6 | 2.5 | A+ |
| Brynteg | 9,229 | 34.6 | 13.5 | C− |
Hope records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Bradley, 2.5 miles away, records 13.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hope’s 29.
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 Hope 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 Hope
Is Hope safe?
Police recorded 29 violent and sexual offences and 8.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hope’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 39% of UK towns. Among 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Hope is 452nd from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Hope?
By council ward, Hope, Llanfynydd and Caergwrle record the least violent and household crime per resident: 23.1, 22.3 and 38 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 38 in Caergwrle.
Is crime going up in Hope?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 11%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 8%, shoplifting and theft rose 24% and anti-social behaviour rose 36%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Hope?
Violence & sexual offences: 109 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (19) and public order (19), with 57 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hope compare with Wrexham?
Wrexham records 62.3 violent and sexual offences and 23.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Hope’s 29 and 8.9, 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 · Welsh Government Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, community safety domain by LSOA · 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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