Photo: Unknown author · Public domainYate records robbery at 2.4 times the rate of a typical town its size
Across all the graded crimes, Yate lands on C− (#41 of 48 in Gloucestershire): more crime per resident than 80% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. It has more violent crime than 82% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 71%. Typical years here bring 38.4 violent and sexual offences plus 12.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Yate
About the middle for a town its size
Of 220 UK towns of 20,000 to 38,000 people, Yate has the 127th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Newton Abbot, Bingley and Epsom, higher than March, Melton Mowbray and Sedgley. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Yate: C− for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 4,342 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Yate against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Police in Yate identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 1% of Yate’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 2% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (59% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 4% 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. 1,529 crimes.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Yate runs highest on robbery (1.3 per 1,000 against 0.5), shoplifting (9.2 per 1,000 against 6.1) and burglary (3.5 per 1,000 against 2.4). Other crime and vehicle crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,036 | 36.5 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 332 | 11.7 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 260 | 9.2 | 6.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 179 | 6.3 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 159 | 5.6 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 123 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 99 | 3.5 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 58 | 2 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 42 | 1.5 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 37 | 1.3 | 0.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 17 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 10 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 8 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 5 | 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 Yate’s neighbourhoods rank in England
35% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 5% 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.
Yate’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 Yate 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 11 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.
Yate places 127th of 220 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
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| 31 | Bradley Stoke Gloucestershire | 25,194 | 23.9 | 8.1 | 7.9 | B− |
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| 80 | Quedgeley and Hardwicke Gloucestershire | 21,125 | 32.8 | 7.4 | 7.4 | C+ |
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| 124 | March Cambridgeshire | 21,345 | 37.8 | 12.7 | 11 | C− |
| 125 | Melton Mowbray Leicestershire | 27,451 | 35.1 | 15.7 | 17.3 | C− |
| 126 | Sedgley West Midlands | 31,976 | 32 | 19 | 7.8 | C− |
| 127 | Yate Gloucestershire | 28,352 | 38.4 | 12.7 | 13.2 | C− |
| 128 | Warwick Warwickshire | 36,673 | 34.1 | 17.2 | 18.6 | C− |
| 129 | Witham Essex | 27,395 | 37.9 | 13.6 | 13.2 | C− |
| 130 | Kempston Bedfordshire | 22,779 | 35.5 | 16 | 18.6 | C− |
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| 157 | Stroud Gloucestershire | 26,073 | 38 | 20.2 | 18.1 | D |
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| 220 | 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 Yate, and others in Gloucestershire.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“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 +2% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -10% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +13% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -22% (towns its size -4%).
Lowest recorded crime in Dodington, Yate North and Yate Central
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dodington | 7,905 | 28.3 | 9.4 | |
| Yate North | 12,345 | 40.7 | 11.6 | |
| Yate Central | 7,955 | 43.3 | 14.7 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping areas | 642 | 31% violent |
| Car parks | 564 | 33% violent |
| Supermarkets | 188 | 51% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 179 | 39% shoplifting & theft |
| Bus and coach stations | 71 | 27% violent |
| Parks and open spaces | 20 | 45% 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 Yate. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Yate’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Two people died in collisions on Yate’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 107 collisions with injuries inside Yate in five years, in which two people died (1 was a pedestrian). 29 people were killed or seriously injured: 6 on foot and 5 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 Yate’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Yate’s own rate (1.4) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Yate had 20.6 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 Yate’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Yate
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yate | 28,352 | 38.4 | 12.7 | C− |
| Chipping Sodbury | 8,026 | 23.9 | 9.9 | B− |
| Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 14,969 | 20.3 | 8.5 | B |
| Pucklechurch | 2,702 | 23.6 | 10.1 | B− |
| Wickwar | 1,701 | 22.9 | 7.5 | B |
| Hawkesbury Upton | 1,001 | 13.3 | 2.7 | A |
| Stoke Gifford | 13,477 | 34.3 | 12.9 | C |
| Bradley Stoke | 25,194 | 23.9 | 8.1 | B− |
Yate records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Chipping Sodbury, 1 miles away, records 23.9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Yate’s 38.4.
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 Yate 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 Yate
Is Yate safe?
Police recorded 38.4 violent and sexual offences and 12.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Yate’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 20% of UK towns. Among 220 UK towns of 20,000 to 38,000 people, Yate is 127th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Yate?
By council ward, Dodington, Yate North and Yate Central record the least violent and household crime per resident: 28.3, 40.7 and 43.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 43.3 in Yate Central.
Is crime going up in Yate?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 10%, shoplifting and theft rose 13% and anti-social behaviour fell 22%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Yate?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,036 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (260) and public order (179), with 332 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Yate compare with Kingswood and Fishponds?
Kingswood and Fishponds records 36 violent and sexual offences and 13.4 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Yate’s 38.4 and 12.7, 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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