Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0For violent crime, Tywardreath beats 64% of UK towns per resident
At 14.7 per 1,000 residents, anti-social behaviour in Tywardreath runs well past the 8.8 of a typical town its size (38 recorded in the 12 months to August 2026). Violence recorded locally dropped 17% in a year. Overall, Tywardreath grades B for safety (#7 of 35 in Cornwall): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Police counts work out at 18.8 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Tywardreath
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 17% less violent crime per resident in Tywardreath than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 550 UK towns of 2,000 to 3,000 people, Tywardreath has the 311th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Hixon, Mundesley and Almondsbury, higher than Halling, Vigo Village and Edenfield. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Tywardreath: B for safety, and why
A fairly firm grade. Built on 211 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Tywardreath 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 Tywardreath’s neighbourhoods rank in England
45% 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.
Tywardreath’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.
How crime in Tywardreath 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 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 -17% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -49% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -52% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -30% (towns its size +0%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Tywardreath runs highest on anti-social behaviour (14.7 per 1,000 against 8.8) and criminal damage & arson (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.5). Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 44 | 17 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 38 | 14.7 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 19 | 7.3 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 9 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 7 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 5 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.4 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 0 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.5 |
| 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.
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.
Tywardreath is 311th of 550 UK towns of 2,000 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 86 | Carnon Downs and Devoran Cornwall | 2,129 | 14.3 | 3.9 | 2.4 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 141 | Probus Cornwall | 2,565 | 17.7 | 3.5 | 1.3 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 153 | Lanner Cornwall | 2,164 | 18 | 4.2 | 3.7 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 289 | Threemilestone Cornwall | 2,854 | 22.4 | 6.4 | 9.1 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 308 | Halling Kent | 2,926 | 18.8 | 11.1 | 7.4 | B |
| 309 | Vigo Village Kent | 2,005 | 16.3 | 13.6 | 3.8 | B |
| 310 | Edenfield Lancashire | 2,048 | 18.7 | 11.2 | 2.9 | B |
| 311 | Tywardreath Cornwall | 2,589 | 18.8 | 11.2 | 8.8 | B |
| 312 | Kingsclere Hampshire | 2,889 | 20.7 | 9.4 | 3.2 | B |
| 313 | Wolsingham County Durham | 2,428 | 19.6 | 10.4 | 3.2 | B |
| 314 | Wymott Lancashire | 2,092 | 28.4 | 1.8 | 4.2 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 550 | Avonmouth Bristol | 2,643 | 82.9 | 54.6 | 60.4 | 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 Tywardreath, and others in Cornwall.
Crime in Tywardreath 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 5 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 Tywardreath’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 14 collisions with injuries inside Tywardreath in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 0 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 Tywardreath is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Tywardreath’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Tywardreath 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 Tywardreath’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Tywardreath
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tywardreath | 2,589 | 18.8 | 11.2 | B |
| St Blazey | 6,569 | 33.1 | 11.4 | C |
| Carlyon Bay | 1,174 | 19.5 | 4.7 | B+ |
| Fowey | 2,027 | 27.5 | 9 | C+ |
| Penwithick | 1,706 | 50.1 | 12.8 | D |
| Lostwithiel | 3,067 | 23 | 7.6 | B− |
| St Austell | 24,361 | 47.8 | 15.6 | D |
| Bugle | 2,430 | 71.4 | 23 | D− |
Tywardreath records more graded crime per resident than 1 of its 7 neighbours. Carlyon Bay, 2.6 miles away, records 19.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Tywardreath’s 18.8.
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 Tywardreath 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 Tywardreath
Is Tywardreath safe?
Police recorded 18.8 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Tywardreath’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 56% of UK towns. Among 550 UK towns of 2,000 to 3,000 people, Tywardreath is 311th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Tywardreath?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 17%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 49%, shoplifting and theft fell 52% and anti-social behaviour fell 30%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Tywardreath?
Violence & sexual offences: 44 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 (9), with 38 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Tywardreath 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 Tywardreath’s 18.8 and 11.2, 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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