Photo: Mikey from Somewhere in Greater Manchester, UK · CC BY 2.0Hadfield has less crime per resident than 95% of UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people
On violence it beats 69% of UK towns, and on burglary, vehicle crime and damage 68%. By contrast, recorded violence rose 17% in a year. Violence and property crime split as 17.5 violent and sexual offences and 7.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hadfield
Less crime than most places its size
Of 364 UK towns of 11,000 to 22,000 people, Hadfield has the 24th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Crowborough, Thame and Hassocks and Hurstpierpoint, higher than West Kirby, Dronfield and Chorleywood. Towns its size ↓
One ward carries much of the rate
Padfield ward recorded 187 of Hadfield’s 853 violent and sexual offences in three years: 42.4 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Hadfield the figure is 14.9. Where in Hadfield ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 17% more violent crime per resident in Hadfield 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 fell 20% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Hadfield’s B+
A firm grade. Built on 1,209 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hadfield 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
Other theft and shoplifting sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 307 | 18.9 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 86 | 5.3 | 12.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 62 | 3.8 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 47 | 2.9 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 29 | 1.8 | 4.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 23 | 1.4 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 23 | 1.4 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 21 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 20 | 1.2 | 1.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 19 | 1.2 | 6.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 8 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 4 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
“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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Police in Hadfield identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 46% of Hadfield’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 11% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (58% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 6% 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. 414 crimes.
24th of 364: Hadfield among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 21 | West Kirby Merseyside | 13,383 | 17.1 | 7.1 | 6.9 | B+ |
| 22 | Dronfield Derbyshire | 21,161 | 15.9 | 8.5 | 8.9 | B+ |
| 23 | Chorleywood Hertfordshire | 12,632 | 14.7 | 9.8 | 5.5 | B+ |
| 24 | Hadfield Derbyshire | 16,271 | 17.5 | 7.3 | 4.1 | B+ |
| 25 | Farncombe Surrey | 13,247 | 18.4 | 6.8 | 4.1 | B+ |
| 26 | Stotfold Bedfordshire | 12,313 | 18.8 | 6.3 | 3.9 | B+ |
| 27 | Yateley Hampshire | 14,676 | 17 | 8.2 | 5.6 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 82 | Belper Derbyshire | 19,076 | 25.6 | 6.7 | 9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 129 | Glossop Derbyshire | 17,820 | 28.1 | 9.3 | 13.7 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 173 | Matlock Derbyshire | 11,990 | 33.1 | 8.7 | 12.8 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 208 | South Normanton and Pinxton Derbyshire | 16,028 | 33.1 | 12.9 | 9.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 364 | 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.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Hadfield, and others in Derbyshire.
How crime in Hadfield has moved
“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).
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 +17% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -20% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -22% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -14% (towns its size -4%).
Lowest recorded crime in Longdendale, Hadfield South and Hadfield North; highest in Padfield
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longdendale | 6,361 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
| Hadfield South | 3,620 | 23.9 | 9.1 | |
| Hadfield North | 2,345 | 27.4 | 11.2 | |
| Tintwistle | 2,224 | 27.4 | 12.9 | |
| Padfield | 1,471 | 42.4 | 17.2 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and recreation grounds | 103 | 61% violent |
| Petrol stations | 51 | 63% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 36 | 53% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Padfield records 2.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Hadfield. 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 Hadfield. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Hadfield’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
How Hadfield’s neighbourhoods rank in England
8% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 10% 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.
Hadfield’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.
Crime in Hadfield 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 6 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.
One person died in collisions on Hadfield’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 68 collisions with injuries inside Hadfield in five years, in which one person died. 18 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 1 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 Hadfield’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hadfield’s own rate (1.2) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Hadfield had 22.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as 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.
Collisions police recorded inside Hadfield’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Hadfield
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadfield | 16,271 | 17.5 | 7.3 | B+ |
| Gamesley | 3,124 | 39.6 | 15.8 | C− |
| Glossop | 17,820 | 28.1 | 9.3 | C+ |
| Broadbottom | 1,001 | — | — | — |
| Hattersley | 6,959 | — | — | — |
| Stalybridge | 26,850 | — | — | — |
| Hyde | 35,902 | — | — | — |
| Dukinfield | 21,151 | — | — | — |
Hadfield records less graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table.
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 Hadfield 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 Hadfield
Is Hadfield safe?
Police recorded 17.5 violent and sexual offences and 7.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hadfield’s built-up area). That earns a B+ for safety: less crime per resident than 70% of UK towns. Among 364 UK towns of 11,000 to 22,000 people, Hadfield is 24th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Hadfield?
By council ward, Longdendale, Hadfield South and Hadfield North record the least violent and household crime per resident: 0.8, 23.9 and 27.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 42.4 in Padfield.
Is crime going up in Hadfield?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 17%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 20%, shoplifting and theft fell 22% and anti-social behaviour fell 14%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Hadfield?
Violence & sexual offences: 307 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (62) and criminal damage & arson (47), with 86 reports of anti-social behaviour.
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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