Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Compared with UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Tring has less crime per resident than nine in ten them
It has less violent crime than 69% of UK towns, but less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than only 45%. Recorded violence rose 7% in a year. Each year brought 17.4 violent and sexual offences and 10.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 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 Tring
Less crime than most places its size
Of 428 UK towns of 8,000 to 16,000 people, Tring has the 53rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Bradford-on-Avon, Bradwell and Egglescliffe, higher than Flitwick, Wideopen and Chalfont St Peter. 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. 21% of Tring’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% more violent crime per resident in Tring 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 fell 30% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: B for Tring
A fairly firm grade. Built on 990 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Tring against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
1 in 5 Tring residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
75% 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.
Tring’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.
Tring is 53rd of 428 UK towns of 8,000 to 16,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
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| 31 | Chorleywood Hertfordshire | 12,632 | 14.7 | 9.8 | 5.5 | B+ |
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| 50 | Flitwick Bedfordshire | 13,668 | 16.2 | 11.2 | 9.4 | B |
| 51 | Wideopen Tyne and Wear | 9,150 | 17.7 | 9.7 | 6 | B |
| 52 | Chalfont St Peter Buckinghamshire | 13,654 | 15.6 | 11.9 | 5.8 | B |
| 53 | Tring Hertfordshire | 11,961 | 17.4 | 10.2 | 9.3 | B |
| 54 | Ballymoney Causeway Coast and Glens | 11,048 | 19 | 8.8 | 7.2 | B |
| 55 | Cranleigh Surrey | 10,430 | 19.1 | 8.8 | 6.9 | B |
| 56 | East Leake Nottinghamshire | 8,551 | 18.5 | 9.3 | 5.3 | B |
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| 122 | Radlett Hertfordshire | 8,182 | 17.8 | 15.6 | 7.5 | B− |
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| 155 | Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire | 10,471 | 23.2 | 12.7 | 6 | C+ |
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| 263 | Baldock Hertfordshire | 10,613 | 32.5 | 13 | 11.3 | C |
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| 428 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | 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 Tring, and others in Hertfordshire.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Tring runs highest on anti-social behaviour (15.4 per 1,000 against 12.4). Public order and other crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 219 | 18.3 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 184 | 15.4 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 76 | 6.4 | 6.1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 53 | 4.4 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 40 | 3.3 | 4.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 38 | 3.2 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 22 | 1.8 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 20 | 1.7 | 2.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 18 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 13 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 6 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 5 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 3 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 2 | 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.
Police in Tring identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 76% of Tring’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 16% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (69% 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. 320 crimes.
How crime in Tring 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 +7% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -30% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +33% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +16% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Tring 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 8 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 10 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Lowest recorded crime in Tring East, Tring West and Rural and Tring Central; highest in Tring Central
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tring East | 3,215 | 10.4 | 7.1 | |
| Tring West and Rural | 3,627 | 18.9 | 11.4 | |
| Tring Central | 5,119 | 20.6 | 11.4 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 151 | 86% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 89 | 45% violent |
| Petrol stations | 53 | 43% anti-social behaviour |
| Police stations | 30 | 47% anti-social behaviour |
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 Tring. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Tring’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Tring’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 25 collisions with injuries inside Tring in five years. 4 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 on foot and 1 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 Tring’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Tring’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Tring’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 14 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Tring had 4.
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 Tring’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Tring
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tring | 11,961 | 17.4 | 10.2 | B |
| Aston Clinton | 5,511 | 19.7 | 8 | B |
| Pitstone | 4,109 | 19.6 | 9.2 | B |
| Cheddington | 1,770 | 11.5 | 3.8 | A |
| Wendover | 8,729 | 13.6 | 6.5 | A− |
| Weston Turville | 1,835 | 11.8 | 8.2 | A− |
| Berkhamsted | 21,236 | 16.3 | 11.4 | B |
| Broughton | 2,168 | 58.1 | 13.1 | D |
Tring records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Cheddington, 3.4 miles away, records 11.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Tring’s 17.4.
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 Tring 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 Tring
Is Tring safe?
Police recorded 17.4 violent and sexual offences and 10.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Tring’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 62% of UK towns. Among 428 UK towns of 8,000 to 16,000 people, Tring is 53rd from the least crime. 21% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Tring?
By council ward, Tring East, Tring West and Rural and Tring Central record the least violent and household crime per resident: 10.4, 18.9 and 20.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 20.6 in Tring Central.
Is crime going up in Tring?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 30%, shoplifting and theft rose 33% and anti-social behaviour rose 16%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Tring?
Violence & sexual offences: 219 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (76) and criminal damage & arson (53), with 184 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Tring compare with Aylesbury?
Aylesbury records 39.9 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Tring’s 17.4 and 10.2, 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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