Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0More violent crime is recorded per resident in Egremont than in 91% of UK towns
The yearly rates were 46.5 violent and sexual offences and 14.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents. Of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, 9% record more crime per resident. Scored on crimes police recorded inside Egremont’s built-up area across September 2023 to August 2026, the town lands on D for safety: #17 of 23 in Cumbria. Violence recorded locally dropped 21% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Egremont
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 21% less violent crime per resident in Egremont 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 fell 21% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
41% of Egremont’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 35% 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.
What’s behind Egremont’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 1,056 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Egremont 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, Egremont runs highest on other crime (4.8 per 1,000 against 1.5), public order (8.8 per 1,000 against 3.6) and shoplifting (4 per 1,000 against 1.8). Anti-social behaviour sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 239 | 41.3 | 22.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 56 | 9.7 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 51 | 8.8 | 3.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 43 | 7.4 | 8.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 28 | 4.8 | 1.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 27 | 4.7 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 23 | 4 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 12 | 2.1 | 1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 10 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 9 | 1.6 | 2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 2 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| 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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
How crime in Egremont has moved
“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 -21% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -21% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +2% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +8% (towns its size +0%).
41% of Egremont residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
35% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 41% 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.
Egremont’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 Egremont compares with UK towns of 4,000 to 8,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 51 | Seaton Cumbria | 5,051 | 15.5 | 4.6 | 2.5 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 71 | Grange-over-Sands Cumbria | 4,047 | 14.2 | 7.7 | 4.5 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 341 | Millom Cumbria | 5,690 | 27 | 8.4 | 5.2 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 360 | Dalton-in-Furness Cumbria | 7,551 | 27.2 | 9.3 | 5.3 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 565 | Minster (Thanet) Kent | 4,739 | 46.2 | 13.3 | 6.4 | D |
| 566 | Ushaw Moor and Bearpark County Durham | 6,483 | 41.8 | 17.7 | 15.4 | D |
| 567 | Berechurch Essex | 7,702 | 46.3 | 13.3 | 5.6 | D |
| 568 | Egremont Cumbria | 5,791 | 46.5 | 14.3 | 9.5 | D |
| 569 | Rye East Sussex | 4,888 | 41.5 | 20.1 | 15.4 | D |
| 570 | Sacriston County Durham | 5,186 | 38.5 | 23.3 | 17.4 | D |
| 571 | Darfield South Yorkshire | 7,209 | 38 | 24.4 | 7.4 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 628 | 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.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Egremont, and others in Cumbria.
Crime in Egremont 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 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 9 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police in Egremont identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 62% of Egremont’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (63% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 12% of violent and 9% of household crimes reached court.
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. 341 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Egremont’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 19 collisions with injuries inside Egremont in five years. 5 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Egremont is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Egremont’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 5 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Egremont had 5.
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 Egremont’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Egremont
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egremont | 5,791 | 46.5 | 14.3 | D |
| St Bees | 1,187 | 27 | 7.3 | B− |
| Cleator Moor | 6,671 | 40.5 | 14.3 | C− |
| Whitehaven | 22,952 | 52 | 14.5 | D |
| Frizington | 1,754 | 62.5 | 23 | D− |
| Moresby Parks | 1,180 | 12.4 | 1.4 | A+ |
| Seascale | 1,708 | 17.4 | 5.5 | A− |
| Distington | 1,375 | 30.6 | 7.5 | C+ |
Egremont records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Whitehaven and Frizington record more. St Bees, 2.3 miles away, records 27 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Egremont’s 46.5.
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 Egremont 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 Egremont
Is Egremont safe?
Police recorded 46.5 violent and sexual offences and 14.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Egremont’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 12% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Egremont has less crime per resident than 9%.
Is crime going up in Egremont?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 21%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 21%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour rose 8%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Egremont?
Violence & sexual offences: 239 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (56) and public order (51), with 43 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Egremont compare with Whitehaven?
Whitehaven records 52 violent and sexual offences and 14.5 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Egremont’s 46.5 and 14.3, 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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