Photo: Adrian S Pye · CC BY-SA 2.0Taverham and Drayton records less crime per resident than 89% of UK towns
On violence it beats 82% of UK towns, and on burglary, vehicle crime and damage 94%. Measured on crimes police recorded inside Taverham and Drayton’s built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026, it earns a Safety Grade of A: #6 of 51 in Norfolk. Violence recorded locally dropped 16% in a year. Annual rates stand at 13.7 violent and sexual offences and 3.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Taverham and Drayton
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 16% less violent crime per resident in Taverham and Drayton 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 rose 50% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 372 UK towns of 10,000 to 20,000 people, Taverham and Drayton has the 3rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Ashtead, Streetly and Southwater, higher than Kesgrave and Haxby. 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. 29% of Taverham and Drayton’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.
What’s behind Taverham and Drayton’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 778 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Taverham and Drayton 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
Anti-social behaviour and public order sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 177 | 11.8 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 67 | 4.5 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 41 | 2.7 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 27 | 1.8 | 4.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 23 | 1.5 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 15 | 1 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 7 | 0.5 | 2.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 6 | 0.4 | 1.9 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 6 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Other crime | not graded | 5 | 0.3 | 1.8 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 4 | 0.3 | 6.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 4 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 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.
Of 372 towns its size, Taverham and Drayton is 3rd from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| 2 | Haxby North Yorkshire | 10,176 | 11.7 | 5.4 | 8.1 | A |
| 3 | Taverham and Drayton Norfolk | 14,989 | 13.7 | 3.7 | 2.4 | A |
| 4 | Verwood Dorset | 13,706 | 12.5 | 5.9 | 6 | A |
| 5 | Corfe Mullen Dorset | 10,036 | 11.9 | 7 | 4.4 | A |
| 6 | Longton Lancashire | 10,912 | 14 | 5.6 | 3.5 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 46 | Bradwell Norfolk | 11,632 | 19.3 | 8.8 | 6.3 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 86 | Attleborough Norfolk | 11,236 | 26.1 | 5.8 | 5.1 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 110 | Downham Market Norfolk | 11,349 | 24.6 | 9.3 | 9.1 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 120 | Watton Norfolk | 11,549 | 28.1 | 7.1 | 5.2 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 372 | 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 Taverham and Drayton, and others in Norfolk.
1 in 3 Taverham and Drayton residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
90% 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.
Taverham and Drayton’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.
Police in Taverham and Drayton identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 54% of Taverham and Drayton’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 6% 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 8% 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. 275 crimes.
How crime in Taverham and Drayton 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 -16% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +50% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +15% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +16% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Taverham and Drayton 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 4 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 3 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 Taverham South, Drayton North and Taverham North
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taverham South | 4,553 | 12.7 | 3.1 | |
| Drayton North | 2,987 | 12.7 | 4.4 | |
| Taverham North | 5,284 | 15.5 | 2.6 | |
| Drayton South | 2,165 | 12.5 | 6.3 |
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 Taverham and Drayton’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026.
No one died in a collision on Taverham and Drayton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 35 collisions with injuries inside Taverham and Drayton in five years. 9 people were killed or seriously injured: 4 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 Taverham and Drayton’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Taverham and Drayton’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Taverham and Drayton’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 18 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Taverham and Drayton had 9.
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 Taverham and Drayton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Taverham and Drayton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taverham and Drayton | 14,989 | 13.7 | 3.7 | A |
| Costessey | 2,608 | 16.6 | 7 | B+ |
| Queen's Hills | 4,465 | 17.2 | 4.3 | A− |
| Horsford | 4,396 | 21.4 | 7.1 | B |
| Easton | 1,436 | 43.4 | 9.1 | C− |
| Horsham St Faith | 1,051 | 13 | 5.7 | A |
| Norwich | 200,744 | 42.7 | 14.8 | D |
| Hevingham | 1,039 | 10.6 | 4.2 | A |
Taverham and Drayton records more graded crime per resident than 1 of its 7 neighbours. Hevingham, 4.7 miles away, records 10.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Taverham and Drayton’s 13.7.
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 Taverham and Drayton 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 Taverham and Drayton
Is Taverham and Drayton safe?
Police recorded 13.7 violent and sexual offences and 3.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Taverham and Drayton’s built-up area). That earns an A for safety: less crime per resident than 89% of UK towns. Among 372 UK towns of 10,000 to 20,000 people, Taverham and Drayton is 3rd from the least crime. 29% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Taverham and Drayton?
By council ward, Taverham South, Drayton North and Taverham North record the least violent and household crime per resident: 12.7, 12.7 and 15.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 12.5 in Drayton South.
Is crime going up in Taverham and Drayton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 16%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 50%, shoplifting and theft rose 15% and anti-social behaviour rose 16%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Taverham and Drayton?
Violence & sexual offences: 177 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (41) and other theft (27), with 67 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Taverham and Drayton compare with Norwich?
Norwich records 42.7 violent and sexual offences and 14.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Taverham and Drayton’s 13.7 and 3.7, 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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