Photo: John Yeadon · CC BY 3.0Eston has more crime per resident than almost every UK town
Violence recorded locally climbed 7% in a year. More crime per resident is recorded in 1% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Graded on crimes police recorded inside Eston’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it scores D− for safety. Out of every 1,000 residents, 62.1 violent and sexual offences and 42.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are reported annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Eston
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% more violent crime per resident in Eston 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 held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
64% of Eston’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 6% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Eston’s D−
A firm grade. Built on 9,312 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Eston 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
Against the typical town its size, Eston runs highest on robbery (3.1 per 1,000 against 0.5), burglary (11.2 per 1,000 against 2.4) and criminal damage & arson (26.3 per 1,000 against 6.2).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,757 | 59.3 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 861 | 29.1 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 779 | 26.3 | 6.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 523 | 17.7 | 6.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 380 | 12.8 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 331 | 11.2 | 2.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 309 | 10.4 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 223 | 7.5 | 2.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 194 | 6.5 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 148 | 5 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 93 | 3.1 | 0.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 37 | 1.2 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 17 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 9 | 0.3 | 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.
64% of Eston residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
6% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 64% 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.
Eston’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 Eston compares with UK towns of 21,000 to 40,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
| 2 | Ingleby Barwick North Yorkshire | 23,380 | 15.2 | 5.7 | 10.3 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 189 | Redcar North Yorkshire | 37,666 | 48.8 | 24.6 | 19.2 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 205 | Thornaby-on-Tees North Yorkshire | 23,352 | 59.3 | 33.4 | 59.7 | D− |
| 206 | Bishop Auckland County Durham | 23,359 | 56.3 | 36.4 | 33.6 | D− |
| 207 | Gainsborough Lincolnshire | 21,899 | 66.4 | 32 | 30.1 | D− |
| 208 | Eston North Yorkshire | 29,625 | 62.1 | 42.7 | 27.4 | D− |
| 209 | Rhyl Clwyd | 26,982 | 89.1 | 22.9 | 29 | D− |
| 210 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | 28,979 | 105 | 32.9 | 33.7 | 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 Eston, and others in North Yorkshire.
Crime in Eston 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 45 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 29 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Eston 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 +7% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +2% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +1% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -16% (towns its size -4%).
Lowest recorded crime in Normanby, Teesville and Grangetown; highest in South Bank
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normanby | 5,200 | 32.8 | 22.2 | |
| Teesville | 6,000 | 38.1 | 25.4 | |
| Grangetown | 6,387 | 69.1 | 49.1 | |
| Eston | 6,607 | 77.7 | 49.7 | |
| South Bank | 5,431 | 88.8 | 65.4 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 627 | 25% violent |
| Police stations | 341 | 69% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 202 | 54% violent |
| Petrol stations | 94 | 34% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so South Bank records 1.6× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Eston. 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 Eston. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Eston’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 72% of Eston’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 15% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (73% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 9% 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. 3,014 crimes.
One person died in collisions on Eston’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 143 collisions with injuries inside Eston in five years, in which one person died (1 was a pedestrian). 53 people were killed or seriously injured: 17 on foot and 7 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 Eston’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Eston’s own rate (0.7) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Eston had 35.5 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8). 32% of them were on foot, against 30% across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
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 Eston’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Eston
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eston | 29,625 | 62.1 | 42.7 | D− |
| Middlesbrough | 148,232 | 70.8 | 40.1 | D− |
| Guisborough | 18,091 | 31 | 16.6 | C− |
| Redcar | 37,666 | 48.8 | 24.6 | D |
| New Marske | 2,990 | 22.3 | 10.6 | B− |
| Stainton | 1,817 | 25 | 15 | C+ |
| Great Ayton | 4,348 | 12.9 | 9.4 | A− |
| Marske-by-the-Sea | 7,576 | 25.3 | 11.2 | C+ |
Eston records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Middlesbrough records more. Guisborough, 4.3 miles away, records 31 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Eston’s 62.1.
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 Eston 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 Eston
Is Eston safe?
Police recorded 62.1 violent and sexual offences and 42.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Eston’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: behind almost every UK town. Among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Eston has less crime per resident than 1%.
What are the safest areas of Eston?
By council ward, Normanby, Teesville and Grangetown record the least violent and household crime per resident: 32.8, 38.1 and 69.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 88.8 in South Bank.
Is crime going up in Eston?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour fell 16%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Eston?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,757 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (779) and shoplifting (523), with 861 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Eston compare with Middlesbrough?
Middlesbrough records 70.8 violent and sexual offences and 40.1 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Eston’s 62.1 and 42.7, 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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