Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0Compared with UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Lytham St Anne's has less crime per resident than 65% of them
With 869 cases in the 12 months to August 2026, anti-social behaviour reaches 20.4 per 1,000 residents in Lytham St Anne's, well above the typical 12.4. Violent crime was up 6% in a year. Graded on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it scores C+ for safety: #27 of 65 in Lancashire. In a usual year, 27.3 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 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 Lytham St Anne's
One ward carries much of the rate
Central ward recorded 850 of Lytham St Anne's’s 3,494 violent and sexual offences in three years: 64.3 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Lytham St Anne's the figure is 23. Where in Lytham St Anne's ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 6% more violent crime per resident in Lytham St Anne's 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 14% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 157 UK towns of 30,000 to 58,000 people, Lytham St Anne's has the 30th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Great Malvern, Exmouth and Bicester, higher than Leighton Buzzard, Arnold and Camberley. 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. 19% of Lytham St Anne's’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 7% 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: C+ for Lytham St Anne's
A firm grade. Built on 4,924 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Lytham St Anne's against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Towns its size: Lytham St Anne's comes 30th of 157
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harpenden Hertfordshire | 30,964 | 11.3 | 11.2 | 13.4 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 27 | Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire | 42,736 | 23.4 | 13.1 | 12.2 | C+ |
| 28 | Arnold Nottinghamshire | 40,016 | 26.6 | 10.1 | 12.2 | C+ |
| 29 | Camberley Surrey | 36,787 | 27.7 | 10.8 | 14.7 | C+ |
| 30 | Lytham St Anne's Lancashire | 42,693 | 27.3 | 11.2 | 11.6 | C+ |
| 31 | Kingswinford West Midlands | 51,900 | 24.8 | 14.3 | 12.3 | C+ |
| 32 | Abingdon-on-Thames Oxfordshire | 33,179 | 30 | 9.1 | 10.6 | C+ |
| 33 | Didcot Oxfordshire | 34,600 | 30.6 | 8.5 | 11.8 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 52 | Fulwood Lancashire | 34,693 | 32.1 | 12.7 | 9.4 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 58 | Bamber Bridge Lancashire | 40,359 | 33.4 | 13.5 | 14.9 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 80 | Leyland Lancashire | 39,281 | 37.3 | 14.2 | 14.3 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 100 | Skelmersdale Lancashire | 34,921 | 41.5 | 17.2 | 9.9 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 157 | Bridgwater Somerset | 47,846 | 76.8 | 18.9 | 29.3 | 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 Lytham St Anne's, and others in Lancashire.
Lowest recorded crime in Ansdell, St Leonards and Fairhaven; highest in Central
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansdell | 4,127 | 16.6 | 8.5 | |
| St Leonards | 3,313 | 21.1 | 6.6 | |
| Fairhaven | 4,121 | 18.4 | 9.5 | |
| Park | 4,995 | 20.4 | 8.9 | |
| Heyhouses | 5,253 | 21.4 | 10.9 | |
| Kilnhouse | 3,986 | 22.6 | 10.1 | |
| Clifton | 3,869 | 25.5 | 9.5 | |
| St Johns | 4,166 | 26.8 | 8.6 | |
| Ashton | 4,458 | 34.2 | 14.9 | |
| Central | 4,405 | 64.3 | 22.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 763 | 34% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 315 | 52% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 252 | 69% shoplifting & theft |
| Police stations | 141 | 84% anti-social behaviour |
| Hospitals | 59 | 34% anti-social behaviour |
| Petrol stations | 37 | 51% shoplifting & theft |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Central records 2.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Lytham St Anne's. 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 Lytham St Anne's. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Lytham St Anne's’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
1 in 5 Lytham St Anne's residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
48% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 7% 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.
Lytham St Anne's’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.
Police in Lytham St Anne's identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 59% of Lytham St Anne's’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 8% 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 6% of violent and 6% 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. 1,525 crimes.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Lytham St Anne's runs highest on anti-social behaviour (20.4 per 1,000 against 12.4). Public order and drugs sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,231 | 28.8 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 869 | 20.4 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 218 | 5.1 | 6.1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 212 | 5 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 186 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 182 | 4.3 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 110 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 109 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 69 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 52 | 1.2 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 25 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 20 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 13 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 13 | 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.
How crime in Lytham St Anne's 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 +6% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -14% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -22% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -27% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Lytham St Anne's 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 10 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Four people died in collisions on Lytham St Anne's’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 255 collisions with injuries inside Lytham St Anne's in five years, in which four people died. 92 people were killed or seriously injured: 22 on foot and 13 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 Lytham St Anne's’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Lytham St Anne's’s own rate (1.9) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Lytham St Anne's had 43.1 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). 24% 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 Lytham St Anne's’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Lytham St Anne's
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lytham St Anne's | 42,693 | 27.3 | 11.2 | C+ |
| Wrea Green | 1,899 | 17.4 | 4.6 | A− |
| Warton (Fylde) | 4,180 | 38 | 9.3 | C− |
| Staining | 1,622 | 23.6 | 5.8 | B |
| Blackpool | 149,087 | 79.1 | 26.3 | D− |
| Kirkham | 8,939 | 35.3 | 13.7 | C− |
| Freckleton | 4,478 | 22 | 10.2 | B− |
| Wesham | 4,474 | 28.8 | 8.6 | C+ |
Lytham St Anne's records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Wrea Green, 4.1 miles away, records 17.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Lytham St Anne's’s 27.3.
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
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 59 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Lytham St Anne's’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- 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 Lytham St Anne's 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 Lytham St Anne's
Is Lytham St Anne's safe?
Police recorded 27.3 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Lytham St Anne's’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 38% of UK towns. Among 157 UK towns of 30,000 to 58,000 people, Lytham St Anne's is 30th from the least crime. 19% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Lytham St Anne's?
By council ward, Ansdell, St Leonards and Fairhaven record the least violent and household crime per resident: 16.6, 21.1 and 18.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 64.3 in Central.
Is crime going up in Lytham St Anne's?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 6%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 14%, shoplifting and theft fell 22% and anti-social behaviour fell 27%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Lytham St Anne's?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,231 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (218) and criminal damage & arson (212), with 869 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Lytham St Anne's 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 Lytham St Anne's’s 27.3 and 11.2, 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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