Photo: Glyn Baker · CC BY-SA 2.0Point Clear records more crime per resident than nine in ten UK towns
It has more violent crime than 95% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 81%. What’s more, its letter for safety is D, worked out from crimes police recorded inside Point Clear’s built-up area over September 2023 to August 2026. Violence and property crime split as 53.5 violent and sexual offences and 15.2 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 Point Clear
Neighbourhood ranks
100% of Point Clear’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 0% 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.
Point Clear: D for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 352 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Point Clear 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, Point Clear runs highest on vehicle crime (8.8 per 1,000 against 1.5), other theft (10.5 per 1,000 against 2.5) and violence & sexual offences (56.2 per 1,000 against 16.6).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 96 | 56.2 | 16.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 27 | 15.8 | 5.3 |
| Other theft | not graded | 18 | 10.5 | 2.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 15 | 8.8 | 1.5 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 12 | 7 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 8 | 4.7 | 2.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 5 | 2.9 | 1.6 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 5 | 2.9 | 0 |
| Other crime | not graded | 4 | 2.3 | 1.1 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2 | 1.2 | 0 |
| Drugs | not graded | 2 | 1.2 | 0.6 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.6 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
How Point Clear compares with UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 30 | Tolleshunt Knights Essex | 1,059 | 5.4 | 3.5 | 0.3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 67 | Bradfield Essex | 1,254 | 7.7 | 3.7 | 1.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 113 | Stebbing Essex | 1,061 | 7.9 | 5.3 | 1.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 121 | Thorrington Essex | 1,427 | 10.5 | 3 | 1.6 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 1170 | Ironville Derbyshire | 1,824 | 51.4 | 16.8 | 3.5 | D |
| 1171 | Knowle Hampshire | 1,487 | 54.3 | 14.1 | 4.9 | D |
| 1172 | Trimdon Grange County Durham | 1,233 | 36 | 32.4 | 4.3 | D |
| 1173 | Point Clear Essex | 1,707 | 53.5 | 15.2 | 9.8 | D |
| 1174 | Penygroes Gwynedd | 1,793 | 54.8 | 13.9 | 6.1 | D |
| 1175 | Evenwood County Durham | 1,587 | 43.3 | 25.6 | 6.5 | D |
| 1176 | New Brancepeth County Durham | 1,280 | 55.2 | 14.8 | 4.7 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 1214 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | 1,928 | 259 | 64.7 | 57.2 | 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 Point Clear, and others in Essex.
Crime in Point Clear 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 19 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 12 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 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 -2% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles +23% (towns its size +0%).
No one died in a collision on Point Clear’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 4 collisions with injuries inside Point Clear in five years. 2 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Point Clear is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Point Clear’s size at the median for UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people would see about 1 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Point Clear had 2.
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 Point Clear’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Point Clear
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point Clear | 1,707 | 53.5 | 15.2 | D |
| Brightlingsea | 8,678 | 25.1 | 7.9 | B− |
| St Osyth | 2,249 | 34.4 | 11.9 | C |
| Thorrington | 1,427 | 10.5 | 3 | A+ |
| Jaywick | 5,080 | 87.5 | 28.9 | D− |
| Alresford | 2,462 | 18.7 | 7.7 | B+ |
| Great Bentley | 1,746 | 26.2 | 10.9 | C+ |
| Clacton-on-Sea | 53,190 | 61.2 | 19.6 | D− |
Point Clear records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Jaywick and Clacton-on-Sea record more. Brightlingsea, 1.6 miles away, records 25.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Point Clear’s 53.5.
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 Point Clear 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 Point Clear
Is Point Clear safe?
Police recorded 53.5 violent and sexual offences and 15.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Point Clear’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 7% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Point Clear has less crime per resident than 3%.
Is crime going up in Point Clear?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 23%, shoplifting and theft rose 11% and anti-social behaviour rose 69%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Point Clear?
Violence & sexual offences: 96 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other theft (18) and vehicle crime (15), with 27 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Point Clear compare with Colchester?
Colchester records 51.1 violent and sexual offences and 17.1 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Point Clear’s 53.5 and 15.2, 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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