Photo: Tim Walker from United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0Crime per resident in Bodmin runs higher than in 95% of UK towns
Counting crimes police recorded inside Bodmin’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it grades D for safety.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Bodmin
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 18% more violent crime per resident in Bodmin than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 13% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
31% of Bodmin’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 38% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Bodmin grades D for safety
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
A fairly firm grade. Built on 3,642 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Bodmin against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Police in Bodmin identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
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. 1,090 crimes.
No suspect was identified for 50% of Bodmin’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” (72% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 4% of household crimes reached court.
How Bodmin compares with UK towns of 12,000 to 23,000
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Bodmin, and others in Cornwall.
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 128 | Saltash Cornwall | 15,433 | 28.3 | 10.8 | 10 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 240 | Redruth Cornwall | 15,455 | 43.4 | 12.7 | 11.1 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 278 | Camborne Cornwall | 20,445 | 50 | 17.1 | 11.3 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 290 | Penzance Cornwall | 14,957 | 53 | 18.7 | 19.3 | D |
| 291 | Cradley Heath West Midlands | 18,819 | 52.5 | 20.2 | 11.8 | D |
| 292 | Rawmarsh South Yorkshire | 18,892 | 50 | 23.6 | 30.6 | D |
| 293 | Aberystwyth Dyfed | 14,646 | 57.8 | 16.6 | 16.6 | D |
| 294 | Bodmin Cornwall | 16,904 | 59.6 | 16.2 | 13.8 | D |
| 295 | Bangor Gwynedd | 16,994 | 57.2 | 18.7 | 30.7 | D |
| 296 | Heckmondwike West Yorkshire | 13,368 | 54.8 | 21.4 | 18 | D |
| 297 | Spennymoor County Durham | 20,401 | 49.7 | 27.6 | 14.3 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 317 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Violent crime up 18% in a year, while towns its size held steady
Rolling six-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 +13% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -3% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -30% (towns its size -4%).
Devon & Cornwall Police published three months short or not at all (Sep 2023, Oct 2023 and Nov 2023), so the line breaks there and those months are left out of the rates. “Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Against the typical town its size, Bodmin runs highest on possession of weapons (1.6 per 1,000 against 0.7), violence & sexual offences (62.7 per 1,000 against 30.4) and criminal damage & arson (11.8 per 1,000 against 6.2). Vehicle crime sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,060 | 62.7 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 251 | 14.8 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 199 | 11.8 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 127 | 7.5 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 122 | 7.2 | 4.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 111 | 6.6 | 6.1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 52 | 3.1 | 2.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 35 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 35 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 28 | 1.7 | 2.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 27 | 1.6 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 12 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 8 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
“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.
For every 1,000 residents, about 65 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
And about 17 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 14 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
31% of Bodmin residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
Bodmin’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.
38% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 31% 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.
Lowest recorded crime in Bodmin St Petroc's, Lanivet, Blisland & Bodmin St Lawrence and Bodmin St Mary's & St Leonard
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Bodmin’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bodmin St Petroc's | 6,861 | 52.1 | 15.9 | |
| Lanivet, Blisland & Bodmin St Lawrence | 2,750 | 59.2 | 9.1 | |
| Bodmin St Mary's & St Leonard | 7,293 | 59.4 | 17.4 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Hospitals | 249 | 75% violent |
| Car parks | 131 | 44% violent |
| Supermarkets | 94 | 68% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 84 | 58% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 46 | 28% shoplifting & theft |
| Nightclubs | 43 | 74% violent |
| College and university buildings | 35 | 37% homes & vehicles |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live. 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 Bodmin. We show only these, never streets or homes.
No one died in a collision on Bodmin’s roads in 2021–2025
Collisions police recorded inside Bodmin’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Police recorded 88 collisions with injuries inside Bodmin in five years. 17 people were killed or seriously injured: 4 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bodmin’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bodmin’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Bodmin had 20.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
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.
Crime in the places around Bodmin
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bodmin | 16,904 | 59.6 | 16.2 | D |
| Lostwithiel | 3,067 | 23 | 7.6 | B− |
| Egloshayle | 1,185 | 22.4 | 5.8 | B |
| Bugle | 2,430 | 71.4 | 23 | D− |
| Wadebridge | 5,626 | 42.4 | 13 | C− |
| Roche | 2,311 | 27.5 | 5.8 | B− |
| Penwithick | 1,706 | 50.1 | 12.8 | D |
| Tywardreath | 2,589 | 18.8 | 11.2 | B |
Bodmin records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Bugle records more. Lostwithiel, 4.8 miles away, records 23 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Bodmin’s 59.6.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 249 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Bodmin’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- Some months are short. Devon & Cornwall Police published September 2023, October 2023 and November 2023 only in part or not at all. Those months are left out of the rates, which average the months that were published in full; the raw counts include what was published.
- 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 Bodmin 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 Bodmin
Is Bodmin safe?
Police recorded 59.6 violent and sexual offences and 16.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Bodmin’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 5% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Bodmin has less crime per resident than 8%.
What are the safest areas of Bodmin?
By council ward, Bodmin St Petroc's, Lanivet, Blisland & Bodmin St Lawrence and Bodmin St Mary's & St Leonard record the least violent and household crime per resident: 52.1, 59.2 and 59.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 59.4 in Bodmin St Mary's & St Leonard.
Is crime going up in Bodmin?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 18%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 13%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour fell 30%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Bodmin?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,060 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (199) and public order (127), with 251 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Bodmin compare with St Austell?
St Austell records 47.8 violent and sexual offences and 15.6 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Bodmin’s 59.6 and 16.2, 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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