Photo: Malcolm Neal · CC BY-SA 2.0On burglary, vehicle crime and damage, Wrea Green has a lower rate per resident than 89% of UK towns
In a usual year, 17.4 violent and sexual offences and 4.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are logged per 1,000 inhabitants. The overall Safety Grade is A−, which means less crime per resident than 78% of UK towns, judged on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Wrea Green
Less crime than many places its size
Of 1,764 UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000 people, Wrea Green has the 650th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Yarnfield, Haydon Bridge and Winterley, higher than Buxted, Wyton and Freethorpe. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Wrea Green’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 125 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Wrea Green 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
Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 20 | 10.5 | 16.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 8 | 4.2 | 5.3 |
| Other theft | not graded | 7 | 3.7 | 2.5 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 3 | 1.6 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 3 | 1.6 | 1.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 2 | 1.1 | 0.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 1 | 0.5 | 2.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.5 | 1.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
Crime in Wrea Green 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 3 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 4 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Wrea Green places 650th of 1,764 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 21 | Waddington Lancashire | 1,005 | 4 | 4 | 1 | A+ |
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| 29 | Bonds Lancashire | 1,237 | 5.4 | 3.2 | 1.4 | A+ |
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| 49 | Old Langho Lancashire | 1,072 | 7.8 | 1.9 | 1.6 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 97 | Parbold Lancashire | 2,409 | 7.8 | 4.3 | 5.3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 647 | Buxted East Sussex | 1,616 | 14 | 7.9 | 3.5 | A− |
| 648 | Wyton Cambridgeshire | 1,248 | 16.6 | 5.3 | 3.2 | A− |
| 649 | Freethorpe Norfolk | 1,050 | 15.2 | 6.7 | 2.2 | A− |
| 650 | Wrea Green Lancashire | 1,899 | 17.4 | 4.6 | 2.8 | A− |
| 651 | Charmouth Dorset | 1,337 | 15.5 | 6.5 | 4.5 | A− |
| 652 | Kings Sutton Northamptonshire | 2,306 | 15.3 | 6.7 | 6.2 | A− |
| 653 | East Ayton and West Ayton North Yorkshire | 2,809 | 17.8 | 4.3 | 2.9 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 1764 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | 1,928 | 259 | 64.7 | 57.2 | 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 Wrea Green, and others in Lancashire.
21 violent and sexual offences in the last 12 months, against 43 the year before
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 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 -51% (towns its size +3%), anti-social behaviour -62% (towns its size -1%).
No one died in a collision on Wrea Green’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 16 collisions with injuries inside Wrea Green in five years. 7 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 3 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Wrea Green is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Wrea Green’s size at the median for UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people would see about 1 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Wrea Green had 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 Wrea Green’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Wrea Green
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrea Green | 1,899 | 17.4 | 4.6 | A− |
| Kirkham | 8,939 | 35.3 | 13.7 | C− |
| Wesham | 4,474 | 28.8 | 8.6 | C+ |
| Warton (Fylde) | 4,180 | 38 | 9.3 | C− |
| Freckleton | 4,478 | 22 | 10.2 | B− |
| Newton-with-Scales | 1,510 | 21 | 10.4 | B− |
| Clifton | 1,022 | 26.1 | 11.7 | C+ |
| Lytham St Anne's | 42,693 | 27.3 | 11.2 | C+ |
Wrea Green records less graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table.
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 Wrea Green 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 Wrea Green
Is Wrea Green safe?
Police recorded 17.4 violent and sexual offences and 4.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Wrea Green’s built-up area). That earns an A− for safety: less crime per resident than 78% of UK towns. Among 1,764 UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000 people, Wrea Green is 650th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Wrea Green?
Police recorded 21 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 43 in the 12 months before. With numbers this small, a few crimes change the rate a lot.
What is the most common crime in Wrea Green?
Violence & sexual offences: 20 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other theft (7) and criminal damage & arson (3), with 8 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Wrea Green 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 Wrea Green’s 17.4 and 4.6, 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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