Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Cleveleys records more violent crime than 73% of UK towns
On the record of crimes police recorded inside Cleveleys’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it takes C for safety: #34 of 65 in Lancashire. Violence recorded locally climbed 27% in a year. In a usual year, 32.5 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are logged per 1,000 inhabitants.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Cleveleys
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 27% more violent crime per resident in Cleveleys 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 ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 393 UK towns of 8,000 to 15,000 people, Cleveleys has the 230th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Whittlesey, Buckhurst Hill and Tewkesbury, higher than Stakeford, Hexham and Monmouth. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Cleveleys’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 1,479 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Cleveleys 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 Cleveleys 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 +27% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -30% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +9% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -29% (towns its size -4%).
Police in Cleveleys identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 55% of Cleveleys’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 9% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (67% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 9% of violent and 5% 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. 459 crimes.
How Cleveleys’s neighbourhoods rank in England
22% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 20% 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.
Cleveleys’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Cleveleys runs highest on anti-social behaviour (16.6 per 1,000 against 12.4) and violence & sexual offences (37 per 1,000 against 30.4). Public order and drugs sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 411 | 37 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 185 | 16.6 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 75 | 6.7 | 6.1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 57 | 5.1 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 48 | 4.3 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 44 | 4 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 26 | 2.3 | 2.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 25 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 21 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 14 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 8 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 5 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 5 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 3 | 0.3 | 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 Cleveleys 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 10 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 11 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 Cleveleys Park, Victoria & Norcross and Jubilee; highest in Jubilee
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveleys Park | 4,528 | 23.7 | 7.7 | |
| Victoria & Norcross | 2,463 | 22.7 | 10.8 | |
| Jubilee | 3,854 | 48.7 | 16.6 |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Jubilee records 2.1× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Cleveleys.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Cleveleys’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026.
Among 393 towns its size, Cleveleys ranks 230th for the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 7 | Longton Lancashire | 10,912 | 14 | 5.6 | 3.5 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 11 | Tarleton and Hesketh Bank Lancashire | 8,756 | 16.4 | 4.3 | 3.4 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 94 | Adlington Lancashire | 8,777 | 22.9 | 8.8 | 5.9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 102 | Barnoldswick Lancashire | 10,915 | 22.6 | 9.4 | 6.1 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 227 | Stakeford Northumberland | 8,197 | 30.7 | 13.4 | 18.2 | C |
| 228 | Hexham Northumberland | 10,945 | 31.9 | 12.3 | 14.9 | C |
| 229 | Monmouth Gwent | 10,330 | 32.9 | 11.3 | 19.2 | C |
| 230 | Cleveleys Lancashire | 11,121 | 32.5 | 11.9 | 11.1 | C |
| 231 | Middlewich Cheshire | 14,428 | 35.5 | 9 | 7.8 | C |
| 232 | Berwick-upon-Tweed Northumberland | 13,181 | 32.2 | 12.4 | 12.8 | C |
| 233 | Barwell Leicestershire | 9,149 | 32.8 | 11.9 | 5.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 393 | 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 Cleveleys, and others in Lancashire.
No one died in a collision on Cleveleys’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 82 collisions with injuries inside Cleveleys in five years. 37 people were killed or seriously injured: 10 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 Cleveleys’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Cleveleys’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Cleveleys had 66.5 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). 27% 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 Cleveleys’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Cleveleys
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveleys | 11,121 | 32.5 | 11.9 | C |
| Thornton | 19,263 | 27.6 | 10.9 | C+ |
| Fleetwood | 26,224 | 54.4 | 17.8 | D |
| Carleton | 4,793 | 12.3 | 9 | A− |
| Hambleton | 2,428 | 21.6 | 6.2 | B |
| Poulton-le-Fylde | 12,792 | 30.5 | 11 | C |
| Stalmine | 1,193 | 16.2 | 6.4 | A− |
| Preesall and Knott End-on-Sea | 4,679 | 33.3 | 9.7 | C |
Cleveleys records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Fleetwood records more. Thornton, 1.3 miles away, records 27.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Cleveleys’s 32.5.
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 Cleveleys 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 Cleveleys
Is Cleveleys safe?
Police recorded 32.5 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Cleveleys’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 28% of UK towns. Among 393 UK towns of 8,000 to 15,000 people, Cleveleys is 230th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Cleveleys?
By council ward, Cleveleys Park, Victoria & Norcross and Jubilee record the least violent and household crime per resident: 23.7, 22.7 and 48.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 48.7 in Jubilee.
Is crime going up in Cleveleys?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 27%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 30%, shoplifting and theft rose 9% and anti-social behaviour fell 29%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Cleveleys?
Violence & sexual offences: 411 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (75) and criminal damage & arson (57), with 185 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Cleveleys compare with Blackpool?
Blackpool records 79.1 violent and sexual offences and 26.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Cleveleys’s 32.5 and 11.9, 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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