Wesleyan Methodist Church · Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Violence recorded in Torpoint is up 25% in a year, while towns its size held steady
Torpoint grades C for safety overall (#15 of 35 in Cornwall): more crime per resident than 70% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Torpoint
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 25% more violent crime per resident in Torpoint than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Torpoint has the 361st lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Meltham, Stakeford and St Blazey, higher than Seaton Delaval, Annesley Woodhouse and Dodworth. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 26% of Torpoint’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Torpoint grades C for safety
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
A firm grade. Built on 898 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Torpoint against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Violent crime up 25% in a year, while towns its size held steady
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 +25% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -3% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -16% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -31% (towns its size +0%).
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 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
1 in 4 Torpoint residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
Torpoint’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.
68% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% 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.
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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Against the typical town its size, Torpoint runs highest on other crime (2.7 per 1,000 against 1.5), violence & sexual offences (37.1 per 1,000 against 22.4) and shoplifting (2.8 per 1,000 against 1.8). Public order and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 266 | 37.1 | 22.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 49 | 6.8 | 4.5 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 44 | 6.1 | 8.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 23 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 20 | 2.8 | 1.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 19 | 2.7 | 3.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 19 | 2.7 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 9 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 8 | 1.1 | 2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 4 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 0.4 | 1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 3 | 0.4 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| 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.
Police in Torpoint 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. 278 crimes.
No suspect was identified for 60% of Torpoint’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 6% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (70% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 8% of household crimes reached court.
Torpoint is 361st of 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Torpoint, and others in Cornwall.
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merley Dorset | 5,489 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 3.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 358 | Seaton Delaval Northumberland | 8,012 | 30 | 12.9 | 19.6 | C |
| 359 | Annesley Woodhouse Nottinghamshire | 6,162 | 31.2 | 11.7 | 5.4 | C |
| 360 | Dodworth South Yorkshire | 5,981 | 26.5 | 16.7 | 9.7 | C |
| 361 | Torpoint Cornwall | 7,163 | 33.7 | 9.7 | 6.9 | C |
| 362 | Carlton in Lindrick Nottinghamshire | 5,460 | 26.4 | 17.3 | 12.1 | C |
| 363 | Aylesham Kent | 5,788 | 31.8 | 12.1 | 11.8 | C |
| 364 | Brandon Suffolk | 9,218 | 31.8 | 12.1 | 8.2 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 367 | St Blazey Cornwall | 6,569 | 33.1 | 11.4 | 7.4 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 372 | Looe Cornwall | 5,314 | 31.5 | 13.3 | 9.8 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 407 | Bude Cornwall | 7,347 | 38.2 | 11.4 | 21.9 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 427 | Hayle Cornwall | 9,040 | 36.7 | 15.3 | 16.4 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 546 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
For every 1,000 residents, about 38 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
And about 9 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.
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
No one died in a collision on Torpoint’s roads in 2021–2025
Collisions police recorded inside Torpoint’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Police recorded 30 collisions with injuries inside Torpoint in five years. 13 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 on foot and 3 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Torpoint is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, Torpoint had 36.3 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (16.7).
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 Torpoint
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
Torpoint records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Plymouth and Sherford record more. Millbrook, 1.9 miles away, records 21.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Torpoint’s 33.7.
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 Torpoint 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 Torpoint
Is Torpoint safe?
Police recorded 33.7 violent and sexual offences and 9.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Torpoint’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 30% of UK towns. Among 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Torpoint is 361st from the least crime. 26% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Torpoint?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 25%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft fell 16% and anti-social behaviour fell 31%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Torpoint?
Violence & sexual offences: 266 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (49) and other theft (23), with 44 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Torpoint compare with Plymouth?
Plymouth records 49.4 violent and sexual offences and 14.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Torpoint’s 33.7 and 9.7, 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 · 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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