Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Lutterworth beats 75% of UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people on crime per resident
Burglary runs at 4.4 per 1,000 residents in Lutterworth, against 2.4 in a typical town its size: police recorded 46 in the 12 months to August 2026. The overall Safety Grade is B− (#22 of 50 in Leicestershire), which means close to the middle of UK towns, judged on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Even so, violent crime was down 8% in a year. For every 1,000 residents, 22.8 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were logged a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Lutterworth
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 8% less violent crime per resident in Lutterworth 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 held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 453 UK towns of 7,000 to 14,000 people, Lutterworth has the 174th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Watton, Yatton and Street, higher than Holbury, Ruddington and Catshill. 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. 24% of Lutterworth’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 grade: B− for Lutterworth
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,096 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Lutterworth against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
1 in 4 Lutterworth residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
49% 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.
Lutterworth’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, Lutterworth runs highest on burglary (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.4) and other theft (7.4 per 1,000 against 4.4). Violence & sexual offences and other crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 208 | 19.8 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 94 | 8.9 | 12.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 78 | 7.4 | 4.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 54 | 5.1 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 54 | 5.1 | 5.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 51 | 4.8 | 6.1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 46 | 4.4 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 27 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 11 | 1 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 10 | 1 | 1.9 |
| Robbery | Violent | 7 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 4 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 3 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.2 | 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 Lutterworth 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 -8% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +2% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +24% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +32% (towns its size -4%).
Lutterworth is 174th of 453 UK towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 26 | Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt Leicestershire | 7,329 | 15.7 | 6.7 | 2.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 55 | Broughton Astley Leicestershire | 9,649 | 15.8 | 10 | 4.6 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 64 | Countesthorpe Leicestershire | 7,674 | 18.7 | 8.3 | 11 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 164 | Castle Donington Leicestershire | 7,344 | 21.7 | 12.3 | 9.2 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 171 | Holbury Hampshire | 7,339 | 27 | 7.5 | 5 | B− |
| 172 | Ruddington Nottinghamshire | 7,491 | 23 | 11.6 | 5.5 | B− |
| 173 | Catshill Worcestershire | 10,173 | 25.1 | 9.6 | 6.3 | B− |
| 174 | Lutterworth Leicestershire | 10,519 | 22.8 | 11.9 | 12.6 | B− |
| 175 | Chatteris Cambridgeshire | 11,022 | 26.5 | 8.3 | 6.1 | B− |
| 176 | Fakenham Norfolk | 8,390 | 27.7 | 7.3 | 15.3 | B− |
| 177 | Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire | 7,528 | 26.2 | 8.9 | 15.6 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 453 | 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 Lutterworth, and others in Leicestershire.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 73% of Lutterworth’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 20% 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 4% 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. 391 crimes.
Crime in Lutterworth 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 12 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 13 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Where in Lutterworth police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 228 | 61% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 87 | 28% violent |
| Petrol stations | 32 | 41% violent |
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 Lutterworth. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
One person died in collisions on Lutterworth’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 21 collisions with injuries inside Lutterworth in five years, in which one person died. 6 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 0 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 Lutterworth’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Lutterworth’s own rate (1.9) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Lutterworth’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 13 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Lutterworth had 6.
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 Lutterworth’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Lutterworth
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lutterworth | 10,519 | 22.8 | 11.9 | B− |
| Ullesthorpe | 1,162 | 16.1 | 16.1 | B− |
| Gilmorton | 1,239 | 18.3 | 8.1 | B+ |
| Broughton Astley | 9,649 | 15.8 | 10 | B+ |
| Clifton upon Dunsmore | 1,216 | 9.9 | 5.8 | A |
| Sharnford | 1,066 | 18.5 | 11.6 | B |
| Sapcote | 3,266 | 29.5 | 9.3 | C+ |
| Rugby | 78,130 | 32 | 12.1 | C |
Lutterworth records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Sapcote and Rugby record more. Ullesthorpe, 2.5 miles away, records 16.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Lutterworth’s 22.8.
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 Lutterworth 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 Lutterworth
Is Lutterworth safe?
Police recorded 22.8 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 Lutterworth’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 45% of UK towns. Among 453 UK towns of 7,000 to 14,000 people, Lutterworth is 174th from the least crime. 24% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Lutterworth?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 8%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 24% and anti-social behaviour rose 32%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Lutterworth?
Violence & sexual offences: 208 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other theft (78) and criminal damage & arson (54), with 94 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Lutterworth compare with Rugby?
Rugby records 32 violent and sexual offences and 12.1 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Lutterworth’s 22.8 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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