Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Longridge stands out for shoplifting: 2.9 times the rate of a typical town its size
Police counts work out at 31.1 violent and sexual offences and 11.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually. Among the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, it records less crime per resident than 28%. On top of that, recorded violence rose 11% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Longridge
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 11% more violent crime per resident in Longridge than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 40% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 487 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000 people, Longridge has the 303rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Pelsall, Treorchy and Kiveton Park, higher than Crigglestone and Durkar, Hornsea and Sandiacre. 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. 16% of Longridge’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.
Longridge grades C for safety
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,109 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Longridge 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
Against the typical town its size, Longridge runs highest on shoplifting (5.4 per 1,000 against 1.8), other crime (3.2 per 1,000 against 1.5) and anti-social behaviour (14.6 per 1,000 against 8.8). Vehicle crime sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 297 | 34 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 128 | 14.6 | 8.8 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 47 | 5.4 | 1.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 40 | 4.6 | 3.2 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 35 | 4 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 33 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 28 | 3.2 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 18 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 14 | 1.6 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 8 | 0.9 | 1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 3 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 3 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 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.
1 in 6 Longridge residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
41% 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.
Longridge’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 Longridge 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 +11% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -40% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -5% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -50% (towns its size +0%).
Police in Longridge identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 60% of Longridge’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” (60% 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. 358 crimes.
Lowest recorded crime in Dilworth, Alston & Hothersall and Derby & Thornley; highest in Preston Rural East
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dilworth | 2,781 | 17.6 | 5.6 | |
| Alston & Hothersall | 2,375 | 26.9 | 10.7 | |
| Derby & Thornley | 2,900 | 40 | 17 | |
| Preston Rural East | 683 | 62 | 11.7 |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Preston Rural East records 2.2× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Longridge.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Longridge’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026.
Towns its size: Longridge comes 303rd of 487
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | 6,763 | 9.6 | 5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 9 | Bolton-le-Sands Lancashire | 6,728 | 12.6 | 5.3 | 3.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 17 | Longton Lancashire | 10,912 | 14 | 5.6 | 3.5 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 25 | Tarleton and Hesketh Bank Lancashire | 8,756 | 16.4 | 4.3 | 3.4 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 158 | Adlington Lancashire | 8,777 | 22.9 | 8.8 | 5.9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 300 | Crigglestone and Durkar West Yorkshire | 6,672 | 31.4 | 10.6 | 6.9 | C |
| 301 | Hornsea East Riding of Yorkshire | 8,797 | 32.4 | 9.7 | 5.5 | C |
| 302 | Sandiacre Derbyshire | 9,373 | 33.1 | 9.1 | 9.3 | C |
| 303 | Longridge Lancashire | 8,739 | 31.1 | 11.3 | 9.7 | C |
| 304 | Gowerton West Glamorgan | 7,447 | 32.2 | 10.3 | 7.1 | C |
| 305 | Magherafelt Mid Ulster | 8,996 | 32.2 | 10.3 | 9.5 | C |
| 306 | Fazeley Staffordshire | 7,571 | 30.5 | 12.1 | 4.4 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 487 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | 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 Longridge, and others in Lancashire.
Crime in Longridge 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.
No one died in a collision on Longridge’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 43 collisions with injuries inside Longridge in five years. 17 people were killed or seriously injured: 7 on foot and 3 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Longridge is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, Longridge had 38.9 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (16.7).
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 Longridge’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Longridge
Longridge records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Grimsargh, 2.3 miles away, records 25.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Longridge’s 31.1.
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 Longridge 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 Longridge
Is Longridge safe?
Police recorded 31.1 violent and sexual offences and 11.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Longridge’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 31% of UK towns. Among 487 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000 people, Longridge is 303rd from the least crime. 16% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Longridge?
By council ward, Dilworth, Alston & Hothersall and Derby & Thornley record the least violent and household crime per resident: 17.6, 26.9 and 40 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 62 in Preston Rural East.
Is crime going up in Longridge?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 11%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 40%, shoplifting and theft fell 5% and anti-social behaviour fell 50%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Longridge?
Violence & sexual offences: 297 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (47) and other theft (40), with 128 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Longridge compare with Blackburn?
Blackburn records 44.5 violent and sexual offences and 18.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Longridge’s 31.1 and 11.3, 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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