Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0Langstone stands out for public order: 2.9 times the rate of a typical town its size
For its size, it sits below 39% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people on crime per resident. Langstone’s Safety Grade, C+ (#5 of 38 in Gwent), rests on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: more crime per resident than 60% of UK towns. Violent crime was down 24% in a year. Police counts work out at 27.0 violent and sexual offences and 10.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Langstone
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 24% less violent crime per resident in Langstone than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Langstone has the 608th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Bletchingley, West Clyst and Brierley, higher than Welham Green, Oakworth and Bream. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Langstone: C+ for safety, and why
A fairly firm grade. Built on 327 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Langstone against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How crime in Langstone has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 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 -24% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +9% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +10% (towns its size +0%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Langstone runs highest on public order (10.3 per 1,000 against 3.6), vehicle crime (4.1 per 1,000 against 2) and criminal damage & arson (6.5 per 1,000 against 4.5).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 74 | 25.4 | 22.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 30 | 10.3 | 3.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 23 | 7.9 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 19 | 6.5 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 13 | 4.5 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 12 | 4.1 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 6 | 2.1 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 4 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 3 | 1 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 2 | 0.7 | 1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
How Langstone’s neighbourhoods rank in Wales
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The community safety domain scores recorded crime, anti-social behaviour and fire incidents where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Langstone’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (community safety domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of Wales’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Langstone against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 92 | Marshfield Gwent | 2,386 | 11.7 | 5.2 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 310 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | 3,787 | 19.1 | 6.2 | 1.7 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 361 | Usk Gwent | 2,310 | 18.5 | 8.1 | 11.3 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 399 | Gilwern Gwent | 2,184 | 20.2 | 7.9 | 4.3 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 605 | Welham Green Hertfordshire | 2,962 | 19 | 18.1 | 4.1 | C+ |
| 606 | Oakworth West Yorkshire | 3,688 | 21.2 | 16.3 | 6 | C+ |
| 607 | Bream Gloucestershire | 3,117 | 29.3 | 8.1 | 3.7 | C+ |
| 608 | Langstone Gwent | 2,912 | 27 | 10.4 | 6.9 | C+ |
| 609 | Pilsley and Lower Pilsley Derbyshire | 3,470 | 30.6 | 6.9 | 4 | C+ |
| 610 | Donington Lincolnshire | 3,192 | 26.7 | 10.8 | 7.2 | C+ |
| 611 | Market Bosworth Leicestershire | 2,104 | 20.6 | 17 | 6.3 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 856 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 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 Langstone, and others in Gwent.
Crime in Langstone 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 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
No one died in a collision on Langstone’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 10 collisions with injuries inside Langstone in five years. 2 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Langstone is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Langstone’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Langstone 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 Langstone’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Langstone
Langstone records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Underwood, 0.9 miles away, records 20 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Langstone’s 27.
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 Langstone 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 Langstone
Is Langstone safe?
Police recorded 27 violent and sexual offences and 10.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Langstone’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 40% of UK towns. Among 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Langstone is 608th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Langstone?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 24%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 9%, shoplifting and theft fell 6% and anti-social behaviour rose 10%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Langstone?
Violence & sexual offences: 74 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (30) and criminal damage & arson (19), with 23 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Langstone compare with Newport?
Newport records 55.8 violent and sexual offences and 25.6 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Langstone’s 27 and 10.4, 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 · Welsh Government Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, community safety domain by LSOA · 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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