Photo: David Hallam-Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Long Eaton records more violent crime per head than 81% of UK towns
It has less crime per resident than 39% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Long Eaton’s Safety Grade is C−, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #37 of 59 in Derbyshire. Recorded violence rose 16% in a year. The local count comes to 37.6 violent and sexual offences and 12.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people each year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Long Eaton
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 16% more violent crime per resident in Long Eaton 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 held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 184 UK towns of 26,000 to 51,000 people, Long Eaton has the 92nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Sedgley, Rowley Regis and Yate, higher than Neath, Salisbury and Haverhill. 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. 11% of Long Eaton’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 13% 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.
What’s behind Long Eaton’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 5,633 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Long Eaton 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, Long Eaton runs highest on shoplifting (13.5 per 1,000 against 6.1), public order (8.9 per 1,000 against 5.4) and drugs (3.1 per 1,000 against 1.9).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,498 | 39.6 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 539 | 14.3 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 510 | 13.5 | 6.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 336 | 8.9 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 259 | 6.8 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 205 | 5.4 | 4.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 119 | 3.1 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 107 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 80 | 2.1 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 66 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 39 | 1 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 37 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 32 | 0.8 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 9 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
“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.
How crime in Long Eaton 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 +16% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +1% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +10% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +9% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Long Eaton 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 12 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 20 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 Long Eaton identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 63% of Long Eaton’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 14% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (61% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 5% 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. 1,817 crimes.
1 in 9 Long Eaton residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
33% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 13% 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.
Long Eaton’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.
Lowest recorded crime in Nottingham Road, Wilsthorpe and Derby Road West; highest in Derby Road East
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nottingham Road | 4,948 | 15.3 | 6.6 | |
| Wilsthorpe | 7,570 | 26.1 | 6.6 | |
| Derby Road West | 6,089 | 30.7 | 10.3 | |
| Sawley | 6,462 | 32.1 | 11.1 | |
| Long Eaton Central | 7,281 | 58.8 | 17.8 | |
| Derby Road East | 5,465 | 59.3 | 19.9 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 1,434 | 66% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 309 | 34% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 72 | 58% shoplifting & theft |
| Nightclubs | 45 | 40% violent |
| Petrol stations | 38 | 32% shoplifting & theft |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Derby Road East records 1.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Long Eaton. 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 Long Eaton. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Long Eaton’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Long Eaton against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 89 | Neath West Glamorgan | 40,738 | 39.5 | 9.9 | 9.1 | C− |
| 90 | Salisbury Wiltshire | 47,690 | 34.3 | 15.1 | 16.4 | C− |
| 91 | Haverhill Suffolk | 26,704 | 37.2 | 12.3 | 8.9 | C− |
| 92 | Long Eaton Derbyshire | 37,815 | 37.6 | 12.1 | 20.3 | C− |
| 93 | Totton Hampshire | 28,093 | 35.3 | 14.7 | 15.1 | C− |
| 94 | Windsor Berkshire | 31,569 | 34 | 16.3 | 21.7 | C− |
| 95 | Melton Mowbray Leicestershire | 27,451 | 35.1 | 15.7 | 17.3 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 114 | Swadlincote Derbyshire | 34,569 | 40.6 | 12.7 | 14.7 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 157 | Ilkeston Derbyshire | 38,723 | 55 | 17.2 | 17.6 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 184 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | 28,979 | 105 | 32.9 | 33.7 | 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 Long Eaton, and others in Derbyshire.
Two people died in collisions on Long Eaton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 217 collisions with injuries inside Long Eaton in five years, in which two people died. 60 people were killed or seriously injured: 12 on foot and 24 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 Long Eaton’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Long Eaton’s own rate (1.1) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Long Eaton had 31.6 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8). 20% of them were on foot, against 30% across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
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 Long Eaton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Long Eaton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Eaton | 37,815 | 37.6 | 12.1 | C− |
| Breaston and Draycott | 7,393 | 22.6 | 9.2 | B− |
| Sandiacre | 9,373 | 33.1 | 9.1 | C |
| Stapleford | 15,041 | 37.2 | 13.9 | C− |
| Beeston | 52,359 | 24.6 | 11.4 | C+ |
| Shardlow | 1,190 | 29.1 | 16 | C |
| Trowell | 2,165 | 13.6 | 7.2 | A− |
| Kegworth | 4,293 | 31.2 | 19.3 | C− |
Long Eaton records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Stapleford and Kegworth record more. Breaston and Draycott, 1.7 miles away, records 22.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Long Eaton’s 37.6.
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 Long Eaton 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 Long Eaton
Is Long Eaton safe?
Police recorded 37.6 violent and sexual offences and 12.1 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Long Eaton’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 22% of UK towns. Among 184 UK towns of 26,000 to 51,000 people, Long Eaton is 92nd from the least crime. 11% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Long Eaton?
By council ward, Nottingham Road, Wilsthorpe and Derby Road West record the least violent and household crime per resident: 15.3, 26.1 and 30.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 59.3 in Derby Road East.
Is crime going up in Long Eaton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 16%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 10% and anti-social behaviour rose 9%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Long Eaton?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,498 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (510) and public order (336), with 539 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Long Eaton compare with Beeston?
Beeston records 24.6 violent and sexual offences and 11.4 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Long Eaton’s 37.6 and 12.1, 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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