Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0St Just stands out for criminal damage & arson: 2.4 times the rate of a typical town its size
Violent crime was down 16% in a year. Behind the grade sit 27.8 violent and sexual offences and 10.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people a year. St Just grades C+ for safety overall: more crime per resident than 62% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. For its size, it sits below 20% of the 1,541 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people on 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 St Just
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 16% less violent crime per resident in St Just 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 1,214 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000 people, St Just has the 979th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Frampton on Severn, Pilton and Sedbergh, higher than Codmore Hill, Distington and Hockliffe. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind St Just’s C+
A fairly firm grade. Built on 197 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks St Just 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, St Just runs highest on criminal damage & arson (7.7 per 1,000 against 3.2) and violence & sexual offences (25.1 per 1,000 against 16.6).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 46 | 25.1 | 16.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 14 | 7.7 | 3.2 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 9 | 4.9 | 5.3 |
| Public order | not graded | 5 | 2.7 | 2.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 5 | 2.7 | 2.5 |
| Other crime | not graded | 3 | 1.6 | 1.1 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 1 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 0 | 0 | 1.6 |
| Drugs | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.6 |
| 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.
How crime in St Just has moved
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 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 -16% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles -48% (towns its size +0%), anti-social behaviour -59% (towns its size -1%).
Set against 1,214 towns its size, St Just is 979th
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | Polgooth Cornwall | 1,096 | 5 | 3 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 41 | Mawnan Smith Cornwall | 1,001 | 8 | 1.5 | 1.5 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 89 | Mylor Bridge Cornwall | 1,534 | 9.7 | 2.6 | 2.6 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 98 | Perranarworthal Cornwall | 1,305 | 10.6 | 2 | 2.2 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 976 | Codmore Hill West Sussex | 1,288 | 27.2 | 10.9 | 12.4 | C+ |
| 977 | Distington Cumbria | 1,375 | 30.6 | 7.5 | 4.6 | C+ |
| 978 | Hockliffe Bedfordshire | 1,068 | 20.3 | 17.8 | 13.7 | C+ |
| 979 | St Just Cornwall | 1,830 | 27.8 | 10.3 | 3.2 | C+ |
| 980 | Romsley Worcestershire | 1,153 | 21.7 | 16.5 | 6.4 | C+ |
| 981 | Stickney Lincolnshire | 1,108 | 31 | 7.2 | 2.7 | C+ |
| 982 | Weobley Herefordshire | 1,273 | 26.2 | 12.1 | 1.8 | 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 St Just, and others in Cornwall.
Crime in St Just 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 3 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 St Just’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 5 collisions with injuries inside St Just in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 0 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 St Just is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of St Just’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; St Just 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 St Just’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around St Just
St Just records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Newlyn, 5.9 miles away, records 29 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against St Just’s 27.8.
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
- 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 St Just 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 St Just
Is St Just safe?
Police recorded 27.8 violent and sexual offences and 10.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside St Just’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 38% of UK towns. Among 1,214 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000 people, St Just is 979th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in St Just?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 16%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 48%, shoplifting and theft fell 14% and anti-social behaviour fell 59%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in St Just?
Violence & sexual offences: 46 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (14) and public order (5), with 9 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does St Just compare with Camborne?
Camborne records 50 violent and sexual offences and 17.1 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against St Just’s 27.8 and 10.3, 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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