Photo: Ian Paterson · CC BY-SA 2.0Rossett stands out for criminal damage & arson: 3.6 times the rate of a typical town its size
Violence recorded locally dropped 7% in a year. Its police logs show 22.6 violent and sexual offences and 12.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year. In sum, crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 put Rossett at C+: close to the middle of UK towns. Of the 1,541 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, 24% record more crime per resident.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Rossett
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% less violent crime per resident in Rossett than in the year before; across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 1,764 UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000 people, Rossett has the 1,315th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Stoke Hammond, Ardleigh and Tiddington, higher than Tisbury, Barnack and Coddington. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Rossett’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 209 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Rossett 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, Rossett runs highest on criminal damage & arson (11.6 per 1,000 against 3.2), anti-social behaviour (14.7 per 1,000 against 5.3) and other theft (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.5).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 43 | 21.8 | 16.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 32 | 16.2 | 0 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 29 | 14.7 | 5.3 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 23 | 11.6 | 3.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 11 | 5.6 | 2.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 7 | 3.5 | 2.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 6 | 3 | 1.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 4 | 2 | 1.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 0 | 0 | 1.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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.
1,315th of 1,764: Rossett among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 27 | Higher Kinnerton Clwyd | 1,731 | 6 | 2.5 | 0.2 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 62 | Soughton Clwyd | 1,697 | 7.7 | 2.8 | 2.6 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 381 | Dwygyfylchi Clwyd | 1,403 | 13.1 | 4.8 | 3.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 444 | Llansanffraid Glan Conwy Clwyd | 1,663 | 14.4 | 4.2 | 2.4 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 1312 | Tisbury Wiltshire | 2,274 | 26.7 | 8.4 | 5.2 | C+ |
| 1313 | Barnack Cambridgeshire | 1,007 | 20.2 | 14.9 | 7 | C+ |
| 1314 | Coddington Nottinghamshire | 1,165 | 23.5 | 11.7 | 3.4 | C+ |
| 1315 | Rossett Clwyd | 1,977 | 22.6 | 12.7 | 14.5 | C+ |
| 1316 | Lindford Hampshire | 2,740 | 26.4 | 9 | 4 | C+ |
| 1317 | Watlington Oxfordshire | 2,438 | 24.1 | 11.4 | 5.6 | C+ |
| 1318 | Wheelock Cheshire | 2,155 | 29.7 | 5.7 | 2.9 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 1764 | 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 Rossett, and others in Clwyd.
How crime in Rossett 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 -7% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles -17% (towns its size +0%), shoplifting and theft +72% (towns its size +4%), anti-social behaviour +7% (towns its size -1%).
Crime in Rossett 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 15 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 22 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 Rossett’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 2 collisions with injuries inside Rossett in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Rossett is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Rossett’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; Rossett 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 Rossett’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Rossett
Rossett records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Llay and Hope record more. Gresford, 2 miles away, records 11.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Rossett’s 22.6.
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 Rossett 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 Rossett
Is Rossett safe?
Police recorded 22.6 violent and sexual offences and 12.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Rossett’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 44% of UK towns. Among 1,764 UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000 people, Rossett is 1,315th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Rossett?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 17%, shoplifting and theft rose 72% and anti-social behaviour rose 7%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Rossett?
Violence & sexual offences: 43 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (32) and criminal damage & arson (23), with 29 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Rossett compare with Chester?
Chester records 46.9 violent and sexual offences and 10.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Rossett’s 22.6 and 12.7, 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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