Photo: Lew747 · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Tiverton runs higher than in 89% of UK towns
Counting crimes police recorded inside Tiverton’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it grades D for safety: #42 of 47 in Devon.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Tiverton
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 6% more violent crime per resident in Tiverton 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 ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 290 UK towns of 14,000 to 27,000 people, Tiverton has the 236th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Harwich, Selby and Risca, higher than Normanton, Northwich and Heanor. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Tiverton grades D for safety
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
A firm grade. Built on 3,532 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Tiverton against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Police in Tiverton 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. 1,088 crimes.
No suspect was identified for 48% of Tiverton’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 9% 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 6% of violent and 5% of household crimes reached court.
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Against the typical town its size, Tiverton runs highest on possession of weapons (2 per 1,000 against 0.7), criminal damage & arson (11.9 per 1,000 against 6.2) and other theft (6.6 per 1,000 against 4.4). Vehicle crime and drugs sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 868 | 44 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 258 | 13.1 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 234 | 11.9 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 131 | 6.6 | 4.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 129 | 6.5 | 6.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 97 | 4.9 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 57 | 2.9 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 39 | 2 | 1.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 39 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 31 | 1.6 | 2.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 20 | 1 | 1.9 |
| Robbery | Violent | 18 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 7 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 3 | 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.
Tiverton is 236th of 290 UK towns of 14,000 to 27,000
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Tiverton, and others in Devon.
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 128 | Brixham Devon | 17,839 | 30.1 | 10.1 | 7.2 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 142 | Teignmouth Devon | 15,314 | 32 | 11.3 | 12.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 180 | Bideford Devon | 19,493 | 37.9 | 11.6 | 15.1 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 233 | Normanton West Yorkshire | 21,976 | 44.6 | 16.5 | 12.1 | D |
| 234 | Northwich Cheshire | 18,646 | 49.4 | 11.7 | 19.9 | D |
| 235 | Heanor Derbyshire | 24,264 | 45.3 | 16 | 14.2 | D |
| 236 | Tiverton Devon | 19,710 | 45.4 | 16 | 13.2 | D |
| 237 | Dunscroft and Hatfield South Yorkshire | 14,000 | 37.4 | 24.1 | 10.1 | D |
| 238 | Clifton Nottinghamshire | 22,936 | 43.7 | 18.5 | 21 | D |
| 239 | Ryde Isle of Wight | 24,094 | 50.9 | 11.4 | 13.2 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 290 | Rhyl Clwyd | 26,982 | 89.1 | 22.9 | 29 | 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 47 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
And about 16 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 14 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.
How Tiverton’s neighbourhoods rank in England
Tiverton’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.
36% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 9% 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.
Violent crime up 6% in a year, while towns its size held steady
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 +6% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -1% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +8% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -45% (towns its size -4%).
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 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Lowest recorded crime in Lowman, Westexe and Cranmore
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Tiverton’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowman | 6,538 | 40.6 | 13.4 | |
| Westexe | 5,157 | 41.8 | 14.8 | |
| Cranmore | 4,796 | 42.1 | 15 | |
| Castle | 3,219 | 56.1 | 24 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 402 | 32% violent |
| Supermarkets | 313 | 44% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 282 | 29% anti-social behaviour |
| Petrol stations | 184 | 40% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 149 | 46% violent |
| Nightclubs | 54 | 54% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live. 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 Tiverton. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Four people died in collisions on Tiverton’s roads in 2021–2025
Collisions police recorded inside Tiverton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Police recorded 69 collisions with injuries inside Tiverton in five years, in which four people died (1 was a pedestrian). 21 people were killed or seriously injured: 7 on foot and 3 on a bicycle.
That is more than 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 Tiverton’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Tiverton’s own rate (4.1) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Tiverton had 21.3 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.
Crime in the places around Tiverton
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiverton | 19,710 | 45.4 | 16 | D |
| Sampford Peverell | 1,375 | 8.5 | 5.8 | A+ |
| Willand | 3,477 | 25.2 | 8.4 | B− |
| Cullompton | 8,895 | 37.4 | 10 | C− |
| Bampton | 1,294 | 17.9 | 8.2 | B+ |
| Bradninch | 1,827 | 30.3 | 6.2 | C+ |
| Silverton | 1,501 | 12.8 | 5.6 | A |
| Uffculme | 2,041 | 33.7 | 9.6 | C |
Tiverton records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Sampford Peverell, 4.5 miles away, records 8.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Tiverton’s 45.4.
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 Tiverton 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 Tiverton
Is Tiverton safe?
Police recorded 45.4 violent and sexual offences and 16 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Tiverton’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 11% of UK towns. Among 290 UK towns of 14,000 to 27,000 people, Tiverton is 236th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Tiverton?
By council ward, Lowman, Westexe and Cranmore record the least violent and household crime per resident: 40.6, 41.8 and 42.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 56.1 in Castle.
Is crime going up in Tiverton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 6%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 8% and anti-social behaviour fell 45%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
Is Tiverton town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 54 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 54% of them violent, and Castle ward records 56.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in July and was lowest in September.
What is the most common crime in Tiverton?
Violence & sexual offences: 868 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (234) and other theft (131), with 258 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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