Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0Less crime per resident is recorded in Whitehill than in 70% of UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people
On violence it beats 63% of UK towns, and on burglary, vehicle crime and damage 63%. Violence recorded locally dropped 19% in a year. Per 1,000 residents a year, 18.9 violent and sexual offences and 8.0 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were recorded.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Whitehill
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 19% less violent crime per resident in Whitehill than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 518 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people, Whitehill has the 136th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Ottery St Mary, Long Stratton and Irchester, higher than Earls Barton, Undy and Magor and Ruskington. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 22% of Whitehill’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: B for Whitehill
A fairly firm grade. Built on 417 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Whitehill 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
Criminal damage & arson and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 84 | 16.2 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 15 | 2.9 | 8.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 13 | 2.5 | 3.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 12 | 2.3 | 4.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 10 | 1.9 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 9 | 1.7 | 1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 8 | 1.5 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 8 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 3 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 3 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
“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.
1 in 4 Whitehill residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
49% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% 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.
Whitehill’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.
How crime in Whitehill 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 -19% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -39% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour -25% (towns its size +0%).
Set against 518 towns its size, Whitehill is 136th
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 11 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | 6,763 | 9.6 | 5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 44 | Four Marks Hampshire | 5,613 | 13.8 | 5.5 | 5.1 | A− |
| 45 | Milford on Sea Hampshire | 4,364 | 12.5 | 7.3 | 3.2 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 52 | Odiham Hampshire | 5,091 | 13.8 | 6.7 | 5.7 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 133 | Earls Barton Northamptonshire | 6,067 | 19.7 | 6.9 | 4.6 | B+ |
| 134 | Undy and Magor Gwent | 5,742 | 18.6 | 8 | 4.1 | B+ |
| 135 | Ruskington Lincolnshire | 5,650 | 20 | 6.8 | 3.8 | B+ |
| 136 | Whitehill Hampshire | 5,178 | 18.9 | 8 | 1.9 | B |
| 137 | Randalstown Antrim and Newtownabbey | 5,151 | 18.5 | 8.4 | 4 | B |
| 138 | Linton Cambridgeshire | 4,452 | 20 | 6.9 | 5.8 | B |
| 139 | Crumlin Antrim and Newtownabbey | 5,366 | 19.1 | 7.8 | 10.1 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 518 | Stainforth South Yorkshire | 5,999 | 72.5 | 49.7 | 14.4 | 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 Whitehill, and others in Hampshire.
Police in Whitehill identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 78% of Whitehill’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (63% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 4% of violent and 2% 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. 155 crimes.
Crime in Whitehill 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 5 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 2 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 Whitehill’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 17 collisions with injuries inside Whitehill in five years. 6 people were killed or seriously injured: 4 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Whitehill is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Whitehill’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 4 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Whitehill had 6.
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 Whitehill’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Whitehill
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehill | 5,178 | 18.9 | 8 | B |
| Bordon | 9,349 | 36.4 | 12.8 | C− |
| Lindford | 2,740 | 26.4 | 9 | C+ |
| Headley Down and Headley | 4,935 | 16.4 | 5.9 | A− |
| Liphook | 7,128 | 23.1 | 9.7 | B− |
| Liss | 4,749 | 21.4 | 7.9 | B |
| Hill Brow and Rake | 1,200 | 4.7 | 10.6 | A |
| Holybourne | 1,304 | 9.2 | 6.7 | A |
Whitehill records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Headley Down and Headley, 2.9 miles away, records 16.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Whitehill’s 18.9.
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 Whitehill 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 Whitehill
Is Whitehill safe?
Police recorded 18.9 violent and sexual offences and 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 Whitehill’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 64% of UK towns. Among 518 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people, Whitehill is 136th from the least crime. 22% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Whitehill?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 19%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 39%, shoplifting and theft fell 9% and anti-social behaviour fell 25%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Whitehill?
Violence & sexual offences: 84 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (13) and criminal damage & arson (12), with 15 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Whitehill compare with Farnham?
Farnham records 21.8 violent and sexual offences and 9.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Whitehill’s 18.9 and 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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