Photo: David960 · CC BY-SA 2.0On violent crime, Aldershot has a higher rate per resident than 88% of UK towns
Of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, 24% record more crime per resident. On top of that, the Safety Grade comes out at D, drawn from crimes police recorded inside Aldershot’s built-up area through September 2023 to August 2026: #73 of 76 in Hampshire. Violent crime was down 17% in a year. Its police logs show 43.0 violent and sexual offences and 15.8 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 Aldershot
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 17% less violent crime per resident in Aldershot 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 174 UK towns of 28,000 to 54,000 people, Aldershot has the 114th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Caerphilly, Pontypridd and Worksop, higher than Durham, Kirkby and Skelmersdale. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Aldershot’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 6,993 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Aldershot 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 Aldershot 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 -17% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +0% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +6% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +26% (towns its size -4%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Aldershot runs highest on robbery (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.5), vehicle crime (5.2 per 1,000 against 2.8) and public order (9 per 1,000 against 5.4). Other crime sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,491 | 37.4 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 477 | 12 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 370 | 9.3 | 6.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 357 | 9 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 259 | 6.5 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 215 | 5.4 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 206 | 5.2 | 2.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 121 | 3 | 1.9 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 90 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 54 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 45 | 1.1 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 42 | 1.1 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 27 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 20 | 0.5 | 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.
Crime in Aldershot 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 14 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 16 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How Aldershot’s neighbourhoods rank in England
9% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 23% 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.
Aldershot’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.
Aldershot against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
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| 4 | Chandler's Ford Hampshire | 31,965 | 17.5 | 6.7 | 6 | B+ |
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| 11 | Fleet Hampshire | 37,800 | 20.6 | 7 | 7.4 | B |
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| 16 | Locks Heath Hampshire | 35,744 | 23 | 7.7 | 9 | B− |
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| 18 | Horndean Hampshire | 34,046 | 24.2 | 7.9 | 7.5 | B− |
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| 111 | Durham County Durham | 50,502 | 40.6 | 16.7 | 29.4 | D |
| 112 | Kirkby Merseyside | 45,559 | 43 | 15 | 10.3 | D |
| 113 | Skelmersdale Lancashire | 34,921 | 41.5 | 17.2 | 9.9 | D |
| 114 | Aldershot Hampshire | 39,827 | 43 | 15.8 | 17.1 | D |
| 115 | Aberdare Mid Glamorgan | 37,675 | 46.4 | 13.4 | 9.6 | D |
| 116 | Winsford Cheshire | 32,522 | 49.9 | 10.3 | 7.7 | D |
| 117 | Nelson Lancashire | 33,808 | 44.8 | 15.6 | 13.4 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 174 | 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 Aldershot, and others in Hampshire.
Lowest recorded crime in Manor Park, Aldershot Park and Rowhill; highest in Wellington
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manor Park | 9,302 | 30.6 | 13.2 | |
| Aldershot Park | 7,007 | 35.2 | 12.5 | |
| Rowhill | 7,255 | 41.2 | 14.3 | |
| North Town | 7,844 | 41.1 | 17 | |
| Wellington | 8,419 | 65.9 | 20.7 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 547 | 66% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 421 | 35% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 321 | 36% violent |
| Nightclubs | 244 | 43% violent |
| Petrol stations | 196 | 36% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 58 | 40% drugs, public order & other |
| Bus and coach stations | 23 | 35% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Wellington records 1.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Aldershot. 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 Aldershot. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Aldershot’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 73% of Aldershot’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 18% 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 7% 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. 2,416 crimes.
One person died in collisions on Aldershot’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 223 collisions with injuries inside Aldershot in five years, in which one person died (1 was a pedestrian). 57 people were killed or seriously injured: 22 on foot and 7 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 Aldershot’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Aldershot’s own rate (0.5) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Aldershot had 28.4 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). 39% 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 Aldershot’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Aldershot
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldershot | 39,827 | 43 | 15.8 | D |
| Badshot Lea | 1,883 | 16.8 | 12.6 | B |
| Ash and Ash Vale | 24,284 | 21.7 | 11.9 | B− |
| Weybourne | 11,241 | 16.3 | 7.4 | B+ |
| Farnham | 20,499 | 21.8 | 9.9 | B− |
| Farnborough | 60,665 | 32 | 12.8 | C |
| Normandy | 1,665 | 11.8 | 7.6 | A− |
| Fleet | 37,800 | 20.6 | 7 | B |
Aldershot records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Badshot Lea, 1 miles away, records 16.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Aldershot’s 43.
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 Aldershot 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 Aldershot
Is Aldershot safe?
Police recorded 43 violent and sexual offences and 15.8 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Aldershot’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 13% of UK towns. Among 174 UK towns of 28,000 to 54,000 people, Aldershot is 114th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Aldershot?
By council ward, Manor Park, Aldershot Park and Rowhill record the least violent and household crime per resident: 30.6, 35.2 and 41.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 65.9 in Wellington.
Is crime going up in Aldershot?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 17%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 6% and anti-social behaviour rose 26%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
Is Aldershot town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 244 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 43% of them violent, and Wellington ward records 65.9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in August and was lowest in October.
What is the most common crime in Aldershot?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,491 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (370) and public order (357), with 477 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Aldershot compare with Farnborough?
Farnborough records 32 violent and sexual offences and 12.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Aldershot’s 43 and 15.8, 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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