Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Violent crime in Fleckney rose 47% in a year, while towns its size held steady
Overall, Fleckney grades B− for safety (#19 of 50 in Leicestershire): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Behind the grade sit 23.2 violent and sexual offences and 10.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people a year. With 12 cases in the 12 months to August 2026, drugs reaches 2.4 per 1,000 residents in the town, well above the typical 1.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Fleckney
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 47% more violent crime per resident in Fleckney 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 rose 28% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 823 UK towns of 3,000 to 7,000 people, Fleckney has the 442nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Sible Hedingham, Bourton-on-the-Water and Coggeshall, higher than Mickletown, Overseal and Castle Gresley and Wilsden. 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. 30% of Fleckney’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.
The B− for Fleckney, and how it is built
A fairly firm grade. Built on 499 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Fleckney 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 Fleckney 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 +47% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +28% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +44% (towns its size +0%).
1 in 3 Fleckney residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
100% 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.
Fleckney’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, Fleckney runs highest on drugs (2.4 per 1,000 against 1), public order (6.3 per 1,000 against 3.6) and other crime (2.4 per 1,000 against 1.5).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 127 | 25.8 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 39 | 7.9 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 33 | 6.7 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 31 | 6.3 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 22 | 4.5 | 3.2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 12 | 2.4 | 1 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 12 | 2.4 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 12 | 2.4 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 10 | 2 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 6 | 1.2 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 3 | 0.6 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 2 | 0.4 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
“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.
Fleckney places 442nd of 823 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
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| 122 | Queniborough Leicestershire | 3,087 | 13.2 | 8.4 | 20.6 | A− |
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| 230 | Cosby Leicestershire | 3,518 | 15.3 | 10.8 | 7.8 | B+ |
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| 233 | Great Glen Leicestershire | 4,062 | 16.3 | 10 | 6.2 | B+ |
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| 281 | Markfield Leicestershire | 4,761 | 16.6 | 11.1 | 3.6 | B |
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| 439 | Mickletown West Yorkshire | 3,362 | 23 | 10.6 | 3.8 | B− |
| 440 | Overseal and Castle Gresley Derbyshire | 5,055 | 21.9 | 11.9 | 5.5 | B− |
| 441 | Wilsden West Yorkshire | 3,749 | 22.4 | 11.4 | 5.4 | B− |
| 442 | Fleckney Leicestershire | 4,926 | 23.2 | 10.6 | 3.8 | B− |
| 443 | Rowlands Gill Tyne and Wear | 5,254 | 21.8 | 12 | 12.3 | B− |
| 444 | Ilminster Somerset | 5,961 | 26.9 | 7.1 | 5.8 | B− |
| 445 | Arlesey Bedfordshire | 6,027 | 21.3 | 12.7 | 5.5 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 823 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 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 Fleckney, and others in Leicestershire.
Crime in Fleckney 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 11 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 69% of Fleckney’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 18% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (53% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 9% of violent and 2% 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. 174 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Fleckney’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 7 collisions with injuries inside Fleckney in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Fleckney is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Fleckney’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 4 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Fleckney had 1.
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 Fleckney’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Fleckney
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleckney | 4,926 | 23.2 | 10.6 | B− |
| Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt | 7,329 | 15.7 | 6.7 | A− |
| Great Glen | 4,062 | 16.3 | 10 | B+ |
| Countesthorpe | 7,674 | 18.7 | 8.3 | B |
| Wigston | 34,728 | 30.7 | 14 | C |
| Oadby | 24,039 | 21.8 | 10.5 | B− |
| Husbands Bosworth | 1,218 | 11 | 8.8 | A− |
| Blaby and Whetstone | 14,072 | 24.7 | 11.8 | C+ |
Fleckney records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Wigston and Blaby and Whetstone record more. Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt, 2 miles away, records 15.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Fleckney’s 23.2.
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 Fleckney 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 Fleckney
Is Fleckney safe?
Police recorded 23.2 violent and sexual offences and 10.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Fleckney’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 47% of UK towns. Among 823 UK towns of 3,000 to 7,000 people, Fleckney is 442nd from the least crime. 30% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Fleckney?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 47%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 28%, shoplifting and theft rose 50% and anti-social behaviour rose 44%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Fleckney?
Violence & sexual offences: 127 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (33) and public order (31), with 39 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Fleckney compare with Leicester?
Leicester records 49 violent and sexual offences and 23.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Fleckney’s 23.2 and 10.6, 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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