Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0Mountsorrel sees more burglary, vehicle crime and damage per resident than 80% of UK towns
Its police logs show 26.2 violent and sexual offences and 14.8 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year. For its size, it sits below 58% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people on crime per resident. Weighing it all, Mountsorrel earns C for safety (#34 of 50 in Leicestershire), with more crime per resident than 67% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area over September 2023 to August 2026. Violence recorded locally dropped 5% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Mountsorrel
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 5% less violent crime per resident in Mountsorrel 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 15% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 376 UK towns of 9,000 to 17,000 people, Mountsorrel has the 181st lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Poulton-le-Fylde, Haslingden and Conwy, higher than Amesbury, Baglan and Southwick. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Mountsorrel’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,584 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Mountsorrel 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
Other crime and shoplifting sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 321 | 24.9 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 121 | 9.4 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 78 | 6.1 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 66 | 5.1 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 52 | 4 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 38 | 3 | 2.8 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 30 | 2.3 | 6.1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 29 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 15 | 1.2 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 9 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 4 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 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.
Police in Mountsorrel identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 76% of Mountsorrel’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 19% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (63% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 4% of violent and 5% 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. 601 crimes.
How Mountsorrel’s neighbourhoods rank in England
9% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 12% 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.
Mountsorrel’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.
How crime in Mountsorrel 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 -5% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -15% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -7% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -2% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Mountsorrel 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 7 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Lowest recorded crime in Rothley and Thurcaston, Mountsorrel and Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle; highest in Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rothley and Thurcaston | 5,238 | 22.4 | 12.3 | |
| Mountsorrel | 6,337 | 27.1 | 13.9 | |
| Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle | 1,304 | 37.3 | 28.9 |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Mountsorrel’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026.
Mountsorrel against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 34 | Broughton Astley Leicestershire | 9,649 | 15.8 | 10 | 4.6 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 102 | Birstall Leicestershire | 14,317 | 19 | 14.2 | 7.3 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 118 | Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe Leicestershire | 13,847 | 20.6 | 13.8 | 8.7 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 122 | Lutterworth Leicestershire | 10,519 | 22.8 | 11.9 | 12.6 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 178 | Amesbury Wiltshire | 12,676 | 30.5 | 9.9 | 9.5 | C |
| 179 | Baglan West Glamorgan | 10,516 | 29.8 | 10.9 | 5 | C |
| 180 | Southwick West Sussex | 12,242 | 27.5 | 13.2 | 12 | C |
| 181 | Mountsorrel Leicestershire | 12,879 | 26.2 | 14.8 | 7.1 | C |
| 182 | Totnes Devon | 9,217 | 27.8 | 13.3 | 17 | C |
| 183 | Sandy Bedfordshire | 11,375 | 28.1 | 13.1 | 9.2 | C |
| 184 | Syston Leicestershire | 13,628 | 27.4 | 13.9 | 12.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 376 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | 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 Mountsorrel, and others in Leicestershire.
No one died in a collision on Mountsorrel’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 28 collisions with injuries inside Mountsorrel in five years. 5 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 2 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 Mountsorrel’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mountsorrel’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Mountsorrel’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 15 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Mountsorrel had 5.
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 Mountsorrel’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Mountsorrel
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountsorrel | 12,879 | 26.2 | 14.8 | C |
| Sileby | 8,954 | 32.3 | 14.1 | C |
| Cropston | 1,120 | 8.6 | 8.9 | A |
| Quorndon | 5,576 | 18.4 | 15 | B− |
| Barrow upon Soar | 6,823 | 24.1 | 13.5 | C+ |
| Thurcaston | 1,649 | 25.1 | 22.8 | C− |
| Birstall | 14,317 | 19 | 14.2 | B− |
| Syston | 13,628 | 27.4 | 13.9 | C |
Mountsorrel records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Cropston, 2.3 miles away, records 8.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Mountsorrel’s 26.2.
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 Mountsorrel 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 Mountsorrel
Is Mountsorrel safe?
Police recorded 26.2 violent and sexual offences and 14.8 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Mountsorrel’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 33% of UK towns. Among 376 UK towns of 9,000 to 17,000 people, Mountsorrel is 181st from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Mountsorrel?
By council ward, Rothley and Thurcaston, Mountsorrel and Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle record the least violent and household crime per resident: 22.4, 27.1 and 37.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 37.3 in Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle.
Is crime going up in Mountsorrel?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 5%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 15%, shoplifting and theft fell 7% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Mountsorrel?
Violence & sexual offences: 321 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (78) and public order (66), with 121 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Mountsorrel 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 Mountsorrel’s 26.2 and 14.8, 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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