Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Upper Poppleton than in 98% of UK towns
On the record of crimes police recorded inside Upper Poppleton’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it takes A+ for safety: #2 of 54 in North Yorkshire. Year on year, 7.1 violent and sexual offences and 3.7 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 Upper Poppleton
Less crime than most places its size
Of 1,089 UK towns of 2,000 to 5,000 people, Upper Poppleton has the 16th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Greetham, Arnside and Newick, higher than Cold Ash, Leconfield and Bishopston. 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. 82% of Upper Poppleton’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 Upper Poppleton’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 114 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Upper Poppleton against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Most Upper Poppleton residents live in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
100% 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.
Upper Poppleton’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 31 | 8.8 | 8.8 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 21 | 6 | 22.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 10 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 6 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 6 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 4 | 1.1 | 2 |
| Public order | not graded | 3 | 0.9 | 3.6 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 0.9 | 1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 2 | 0.6 | 4.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.5 |
| 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.
Towns its size: Upper Poppleton comes 16th of 1,089
| # | 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+ |
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| 13 | Cold Ash Berkshire | 2,267 | 5.7 | 4.3 | 2.4 | A+ |
| 14 | Leconfield East Riding of Yorkshire | 2,211 | 8.6 | 1.8 | 1.8 | A+ |
| 15 | Bishopston West Glamorgan | 3,533 | 7.7 | 2.9 | 4.2 | A+ |
| 16 | Upper Poppleton North Yorkshire | 3,520 | 7.1 | 3.7 | 6.6 | A+ |
| 17 | Pickmere Cheshire | 2,800 | 8.6 | 2.4 | 1.6 | A+ |
| 18 | Copmanthorpe North Yorkshire | 3,671 | 8.4 | 3 | 4.9 | A+ |
| 19 | Great Totham Essex | 2,773 | 8.9 | 2.6 | 2.1 | A+ |
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| 35 | Pannal North Yorkshire | 2,530 | 9.1 | 4.1 | 5.1 | A+ |
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| 37 | Riccall North Yorkshire | 2,388 | 10.8 | 2.7 | 0.7 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 43 | Bishopthorpe North Yorkshire | 3,333 | 10 | 3.9 | 3.6 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 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 Upper Poppleton, and others in North Yorkshire.
Crime in Upper Poppleton 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 3 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
22 violent and sexual offences in the last 12 months, against 27 the year before
“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 -19% (towns its size +1%), shoplifting and theft -23% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +41% (towns its size +0%).
No one died in a collision on Upper Poppleton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 12 collisions with injuries inside Upper Poppleton in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 0 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, and Upper Poppleton is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Upper Poppleton’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; Upper Poppleton had 1.
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 Upper Poppleton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Upper Poppleton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Poppleton | 3,520 | 7.1 | 3.7 | A+ |
| Skelton (York) | 1,380 | 15 | 3.4 | A |
| York | 141,696 | 38 | 15.5 | C− |
| Huntington | 12,420 | 23.1 | 8.6 | B− |
| Wigginton | 1,422 | 12.2 | 2.1 | A+ |
| Haxby | 10,176 | 11.7 | 5.4 | A |
| Copmanthorpe | 3,671 | 8.4 | 3 | A+ |
| Bishopthorpe | 3,333 | 10 | 3.9 | A+ |
Upper Poppleton records less graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table.
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 Upper Poppleton 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 Upper Poppleton
Is Upper Poppleton safe?
Police recorded 7.1 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 Upper Poppleton’s built-up area). That earns an A+ for safety: less crime per resident than 98% of UK towns. Among 1,089 UK towns of 2,000 to 5,000 people, Upper Poppleton is 16th from the least crime. 82% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Upper Poppleton?
Police recorded 22 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 27 in the 12 months before. With numbers this small, a few crimes change the rate a lot.
What is the most common crime in Upper Poppleton?
Violence & sexual offences: 21 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other theft (10) and shoplifting (6), with 31 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Upper Poppleton compare with York?
York records 38 violent and sexual offences and 15.5 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Upper Poppleton’s 7.1 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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