Photo: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0Filey records anti-social behaviour at 2.6 times the rate of a typical town its size
It has less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 67% of UK towns, but less violent crime than only 41%. For every 1,000 residents, 25.9 violent and sexual offences and 7.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were logged a year. All told, Filey grades B− for safety (#24 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. Violent crime was up 16% 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 Filey
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 16% more violent crime per resident in Filey 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 481 UK towns of 5,000 to 9,000 people, Filey has the 206th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Selston, Quorndon and Cam, higher than Coxheath, Oakdale and Market Deeping. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The B− for Filey, and how it is built
A fairly firm grade. Built on 666 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Filey 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 Filey identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 50% of Filey’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 7% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (71% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 11% of violent and 10% 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. 240 crimes.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Filey runs highest on anti-social behaviour (23.3 per 1,000 against 8.8), other crime (2.6 per 1,000 against 1.5) and shoplifting (2.9 per 1,000 against 1.8).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 171 | 25.7 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 155 | 23.3 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 45 | 6.8 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 32 | 4.8 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 24 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 19 | 2.9 | 1.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 17 | 2.6 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 11 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 7 | 1.1 | 1 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 5 | 0.8 | 2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 3 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 3 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 3 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 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 Filey’s neighbourhoods rank in England
21% 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.
Filey’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 Filey 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 +16% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +69% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -10% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +17% (towns its size +0%).
Set against 481 towns its size, Filey is 206th
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merley Dorset | 5,489 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 3.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 13 | Strensall North Yorkshire | 6,060 | 14.5 | 3.5 | 2.2 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 160 | Norton-on-Derwent North Yorkshire | 7,909 | 23 | 7.4 | 8.2 | B |
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| 185 | Tadcaster North Yorkshire | 6,339 | 21.8 | 10.3 | 6.4 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 203 | Coxheath Kent | 8,453 | 24.2 | 8.8 | 8.1 | B− |
| 204 | Oakdale Gwent | 6,126 | 24.1 | 9 | 3.7 | B− |
| 205 | Market Deeping Lincolnshire | 6,533 | 24.5 | 8.9 | 6.9 | B− |
| 206 | Filey North Yorkshire | 6,664 | 25.9 | 7.5 | 7.3 | B− |
| 207 | Sherburn in Elmet North Yorkshire | 8,569 | 23.3 | 10.1 | 7.4 | B− |
| 208 | Radlett Hertfordshire | 8,182 | 17.8 | 15.6 | 7.5 | B− |
| 209 | Wallingford Oxfordshire | 8,455 | 24.6 | 8.8 | 8.6 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 239 | Easingwold North Yorkshire | 5,036 | 27.8 | 7.9 | 6.6 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 481 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | 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 Filey, and others in North Yorkshire.
Crime in Filey 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 9 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.
Where in Filey police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 100 | 53% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 74 | 41% anti-social behaviour |
| Petrol stations | 44 | 34% anti-social behaviour |
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 Filey. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
One person died in collisions on Filey’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 22 collisions with injuries inside Filey in five years, in which one person died (1 was a pedestrian). 5 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Filey’s one death is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Filey’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 6 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Filey 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 Filey’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Filey
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filey | 6,664 | 25.9 | 7.5 | B− |
| Hunmanby | 2,900 | 20.6 | 7.7 | B |
| Seamer (Scarborough) | 2,120 | 14.8 | 3.8 | A |
| Scarborough | 59,505 | 58.8 | 17.2 | D |
| Bempton | 1,023 | 11.4 | 1.3 | A+ |
| East Ayton and West Ayton | 2,809 | 17.8 | 4.3 | A− |
| Scalby | 1,790 | 12.9 | 3.9 | A |
| Bridlington | 34,831 | 56.4 | 17.3 | D |
Filey records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Scarborough and Bridlington record more. Hunmanby, 2.4 miles away, records 20.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Filey’s 25.9.
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 Filey 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 Filey
Is Filey safe?
Police recorded 25.9 violent and sexual offences and 7.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Filey’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 48% of UK towns. Among 481 UK towns of 5,000 to 9,000 people, Filey is 206th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Filey?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 16%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 69%, shoplifting and theft fell 10% and anti-social behaviour rose 17%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Filey?
Violence & sexual offences: 171 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (45) and public order (32), with 155 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Filey compare with Scarborough?
Scarborough records 58.8 violent and sexual offences and 17.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Filey’s 25.9 and 7.5, 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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