Photo: Cpl Ian Forsyth RLC · OGL v1.0Per resident, Catterick Garrison records less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 79% of UK towns
It has less crime per resident than 78% of the UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, 645 in all. Catterick Garrison’s overall Safety Grade is B−: close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Violence recorded locally held about level in a year. Year on year, 26.9 violent and sexual offences and 6.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur per 1,000 residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Catterick Garrison
Less crime than many places its size
Of 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Catterick Garrison has the 92nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Cambourne, Churchdown and Soham, higher than Wimborne Minster, Oakham and Wombourne. 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. 40% of Catterick Garrison’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 Catterick Garrison’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 1,404 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Catterick Garrison against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Catterick Garrison is a military garrison town: most residents serve or work for the armed forces and live in service housing, so it keeps its grades but isn’t ranked against other towns.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
A third of Catterick Garrison residents live in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
40% 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.
Catterick Garrison’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 Catterick Garrison identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 52% of Catterick Garrison’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” (64% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 8% 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. 501 crimes.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Shoplifting and public order sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 372 | 26.2 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 174 | 12.2 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 48 | 3.4 | 6.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 47 | 3.3 | 6.1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 38 | 2.7 | 4.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 33 | 2.3 | 5.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 22 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 17 | 1.2 | 1.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 14 | 1 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 12 | 0.8 | 2.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 8 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 7 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.1 | 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.
Catterick Garrison is 92nd of 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000
| # | 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 |
| … | ||||||
| 80 | Huntington North Yorkshire | 12,420 | 23.1 | 8.6 | 19.3 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 86 | Ripon North Yorkshire | 16,593 | 23.9 | 8.1 | 9.5 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 89 | Wimborne Minster Dorset | 16,629 | 22.8 | 9.5 | 9.9 | B− |
| 90 | Oakham Rutland | 12,159 | 22.8 | 9.7 | 11.4 | B− |
| 91 | Wombourne Staffordshire | 12,810 | 22.4 | 10.2 | 7.7 | B− |
| 92 | Catterick Garrison North Yorkshire | 14,212 | 26.9 | 6.1 | 7.9 | B− |
| 93 | Birstall Leicestershire | 14,317 | 19 | 14.2 | 7.3 | B− |
| 94 | Bourne Lincolnshire | 17,495 | 25.6 | 7.7 | 8.9 | B− |
| 95 | Gorseinon West Glamorgan | 14,114 | 25.7 | 7.7 | 7.2 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 103 | Knaresborough North Yorkshire | 15,781 | 23.6 | 10.2 | 7 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 350 | 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 Catterick Garrison, and others in North Yorkshire.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“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 +4% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -5% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -25% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -32% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Catterick Garrison 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 5 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 6 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 Catterick Garrison police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping areas | 100 | 74% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 94 | 55% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 91 | 38% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 50 | 40% violent |
| Police stations | 33 | 48% 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 Catterick Garrison. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
One person died in collisions on Catterick Garrison’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 30 collisions with injuries inside Catterick Garrison in five years, in which one person died. 7 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 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 Catterick Garrison’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Catterick Garrison’s own rate (1.4) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Catterick Garrison’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 17 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Catterick Garrison had 7.
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 Catterick Garrison’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Catterick Garrison
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catterick Garrison | 14,212 | 26.9 | 6.1 | B− |
| Brompton-on-Swale | 1,899 | 19.5 | 7.4 | B |
| Richmond | 8,076 | 29 | 8.4 | C+ |
| Catterick | 2,718 | 15.6 | 3.1 | A |
| Scorton | 1,011 | 11.5 | 5.6 | A |
| Leyburn | 2,414 | 12.6 | 2.6 | A |
| Aiskew | 1,759 | 18 | 8.5 | B+ |
| Leeming Bar | 1,063 | 36.7 | 19.5 | C− |
Catterick Garrison records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Richmond and Leeming Bar record more. Brompton-on-Swale, 2.4 miles away, records 19.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Catterick Garrison’s 26.9.
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 Catterick Garrison 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 Catterick Garrison
Is Catterick Garrison safe?
Police recorded 26.9 violent and sexual offences and 6.1 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Catterick Garrison’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 49% of UK towns. Among 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Catterick Garrison is 92nd from the least crime. 40% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Catterick Garrison?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 5%, shoplifting and theft fell 25% and anti-social behaviour fell 32%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Catterick Garrison?
Violence & sexual offences: 372 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (48) and shoplifting (47), with 174 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Catterick Garrison compare with Darlington?
Darlington records 45.2 violent and sexual offences and 25.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Catterick Garrison’s 26.9 and 6.1, 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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