Photo: Edmundbolingbroke1958 · Public domainRecorded violence in Markfield rose 46% in a year, while towns its size held steady
Set against the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, it has less crime per resident than 67% of them. Violence and property crime split as 16.6 violent and sexual offences and 11.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Markfield
Less crime than many places its size
Of 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Markfield has the 245th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Saxilby, Durrington and Lakenheath, higher than Shepperton Green, Aston Clinton and Kings Worthy. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 46% more violent crime per resident in Markfield than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: B for Markfield
A fairly firm grade. Built on 396 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Markfield 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 Markfield 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 +46% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -30% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +21% (towns its size +0%).
Police in Markfield identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 87% of Markfield’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (69% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 1% 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. 154 crimes.
How Markfield’s neighbourhoods rank in England
65% 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.
Markfield’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, Markfield runs highest on burglary (4.2 per 1,000 against 1.9). Anti-social behaviour and criminal damage & arson sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 88 | 18.5 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 29 | 6.1 | 8.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 20 | 4.2 | 1.9 |
| Other theft | not graded | 17 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 14 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 10 | 2.1 | 4.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 8 | 1.7 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 4 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 0.6 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
“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.
Markfield is 245th of 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 108 | Queniborough Leicestershire | 3,087 | 13.2 | 8.4 | 20.6 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 199 | Cosby Leicestershire | 3,518 | 15.3 | 10.8 | 7.8 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 202 | Great Glen Leicestershire | 4,062 | 16.3 | 10 | 6.2 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 242 | Shepperton Green Surrey | 4,358 | 19.8 | 7.8 | 3.8 | B |
| 243 | Aston Clinton Buckinghamshire | 5,511 | 19.7 | 8 | 3.6 | B |
| 244 | Kings Worthy Hampshire | 4,631 | 20 | 7.7 | 3.1 | B |
| 245 | Markfield Leicestershire | 4,761 | 16.6 | 11.1 | 3.6 | B |
| 246 | Epworth Lincolnshire | 4,361 | 20.6 | 7.2 | 4.6 | B |
| 247 | Thorpe Hesley South Yorkshire | 4,153 | 16.5 | 11.3 | 3.1 | B |
| 248 | Lane End Buckinghamshire | 3,446 | 20.9 | 6.9 | 4 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 286 | Moira Leicestershire | 3,198 | 19.3 | 10.1 | 6.2 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 706 | 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 Markfield, and others in Leicestershire.
Crime in Markfield 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 4 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 Markfield’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 4 collisions with injuries inside Markfield in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 1 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 Markfield is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Markfield’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; Markfield 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 Markfield’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Markfield
Markfield records more graded crime per resident than 1 of its 7 neighbours. Woodhouse Eaves, 3.5 miles away, records 13.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Markfield’s 16.6.
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 Markfield 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 Markfield
Is Markfield safe?
Police recorded 16.6 violent and sexual offences and 11.1 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Markfield’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 62% of UK towns. Among 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Markfield is 245th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Markfield?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 46%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 30%, shoplifting and theft rose 38% and anti-social behaviour rose 21%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Markfield?
Violence & sexual offences: 88 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came burglary (20) and other theft (17), with 29 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Markfield compare with Coalville?
Coalville records 45.4 violent and sexual offences and 18.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Markfield’s 16.6 and 11.1, 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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