Barlby Hall · Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Barlby stands out for anti-social behaviour: 3.4 times the rate of a typical town its size
Recorded violence fell 7% in a year. Set against the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, it has less crime per resident than 53% of them. Across all the graded crimes, Barlby lands on B− (#20 of 54 in North Yorkshire): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. The local count comes to 23.2 violent and sexual offences and 9.0 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people each year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Barlby
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% less violent crime per resident in Barlby than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 1,089 UK towns of 2,000 to 5,000 people, Barlby has the 625th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Cadnam and Bartley, Freckleton and Tanfield Lea, higher than Evercreech, Long Lawford and Hartley Wintney. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Barlby’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 337 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Barlby against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Police in Barlby identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 47% of Barlby’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” (72% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 3% 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. 101 crimes.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Barlby runs highest on anti-social behaviour (29.7 per 1,000 against 8.8).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 104 | 29.7 | 8.8 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 82 | 23.4 | 22.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 17 | 4.9 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 7 | 2 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 5 | 1.4 | 2 |
| Public order | not graded | 4 | 1.1 | 3.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 3 | 0.9 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 3 | 0.9 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 2 | 0.6 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 2 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“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.
How Barlby’s neighbourhoods rank in England
0% 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.
Barlby’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 Barlby 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 -7% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -32% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +51% (towns its size +0%).
Of 1,089 towns its size, Barlby is 625th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 4 | Dunnington North Yorkshire | 3,256 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 3.2 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 16 | Upper Poppleton North Yorkshire | 3,520 | 7.1 | 3.7 | 6.6 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 18 | Copmanthorpe North Yorkshire | 3,671 | 8.4 | 3 | 4.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 35 | Pannal North Yorkshire | 2,530 | 9.1 | 4.1 | 5.1 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 622 | Evercreech Somerset | 2,165 | 24.3 | 7.5 | 6.9 | B− |
| 623 | Long Lawford Warwickshire | 4,369 | 26.3 | 5.7 | 3.7 | B− |
| 624 | Hartley Wintney Hampshire | 3,465 | 21.6 | 10.5 | 3.4 | B− |
| 625 | Barlby North Yorkshire | 3,499 | 23.2 | 9 | 2.6 | B− |
| 626 | Halesworth Suffolk | 4,924 | 23.5 | 8.6 | 6.6 | B− |
| 627 | Grimsargh Lancashire | 2,594 | 25.1 | 7.1 | 3.5 | B− |
| 628 | Desford Leicestershire | 3,817 | 21.8 | 10.3 | 8.3 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 1089 | 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 Barlby, and others in North Yorkshire.
Crime in Barlby 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 7 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 2 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 Barlby’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 3 collisions with injuries inside Barlby in five years. 0 people were killed or seriously injured.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Barlby is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Barlby’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 3 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Barlby had 0.
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 Barlby’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Barlby
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barlby | 3,499 | 23.2 | 9 | B− |
| Selby | 19,480 | 48.2 | 14.7 | D |
| Riccall | 2,388 | 10.8 | 2.7 | A+ |
| Brayton | 4,092 | 12.6 | 4.4 | A |
| North Duffield | 1,305 | 7.4 | 3.6 | A+ |
| Hemingbrough | 1,874 | 17.1 | 5.3 | A− |
| Thorpe Willoughby | 3,482 | 19.2 | 4.2 | B+ |
| Cawood | 1,501 | 12.9 | 3.6 | A |
Barlby records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Selby records more. Riccall, 2.3 miles away, records 10.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Barlby’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 Barlby 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 Barlby
Is Barlby safe?
Police recorded 23.2 violent and sexual offences and 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 Barlby’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 51% of UK towns. Among 1,089 UK towns of 2,000 to 5,000 people, Barlby is 625th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Barlby?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 32%, shoplifting and theft fell 46% and anti-social behaviour rose 51%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Barlby?
Violence & sexual offences: 82 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (17) and other theft (7), with 104 reports of anti-social behaviour.
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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.