Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Yarm than in 98% of UK towns
Violence & sexual offences stands out: 166.4 per 1,000 residents in Yarm, against 22.4 in a typical town its size, with 1,598 recorded in the 12 months to August 2026. Recorded violence rose 398% in a year. The grade is D−, built on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #51 of 54 in North Yorkshire. In a usual year, 77.0 violent and sexual offences and 10.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are logged per 1,000 inhabitants.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Yarm
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 398% more violent crime per resident in Yarm than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 16% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 27% of Yarm’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 Yarm’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 2,520 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Yarm against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How crime in Yarm 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 +398% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -16% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +140% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -50% (towns its size +0%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Yarm runs highest on violence & sexual offences (166.4 per 1,000 against 22.4), shoplifting (12 per 1,000 against 1.8) and vehicle crime (3.9 per 1,000 against 2).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,598 | 166.4 | 22.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 115 | 12 | 1.8 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 84 | 8.7 | 8.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 59 | 6.1 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 45 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 39 | 4.1 | 4.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 37 | 3.9 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 17 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 16 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 14 | 1.5 | 1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 7 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
“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 Yarm compares with UK towns of 7,000 to 13,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
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| 4 | Haxby North Yorkshire | 10,176 | 11.7 | 5.4 | 8.1 | A |
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| 100 | Norton-on-Derwent North Yorkshire | 7,909 | 23 | 7.4 | 8.2 | B |
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| 112 | Huntington North Yorkshire | 12,420 | 23.1 | 8.6 | 19.3 | B− |
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| 134 | Sherburn in Elmet North Yorkshire | 8,569 | 23.3 | 10.1 | 7.4 | B− |
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| 397 | Cleckheaton West Yorkshire | 11,607 | 58.3 | 27.6 | 16.9 | D− |
| 398 | South Kirkby West Yorkshire | 8,880 | 63.8 | 22.7 | 22.3 | D− |
| 399 | Caernarfon Gwynedd | 9,831 | 65.9 | 21 | 25.8 | D− |
| 400 | Yarm North Yorkshire | 9,601 | 77 | 10.7 | 12.5 | D− |
| 401 | Hemsworth West Yorkshire | 9,177 | 63.7 | 24.6 | 21.3 | D− |
| 402 | South Elmsall West Yorkshire | 11,187 | 59.9 | 28.4 | 26.3 | D− |
| 403 | Murton County Durham | 7,239 | 54.8 | 40.8 | 49.6 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 411 | 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 Yarm, and others in North Yorkshire.
1 in 4 Yarm residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
49% 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.
Yarm’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 Yarm identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 84% of Yarm’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 18% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (70% 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. 387 crimes.
Crime in Yarm 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 10 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 18 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 Yarm police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Prisons | 1,533 | 98% violent |
| Supermarkets | 203 | 54% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 64 | 36% violent |
| Petrol stations | 57 | 93% shoplifting & theft |
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 Yarm. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Yarm’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 19 collisions with injuries inside Yarm in five years. 4 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 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 Yarm is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Yarm’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 8 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Yarm had 4.
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 Yarm’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Yarm
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yarm | 9,601 | 77 | 10.7 | D− |
| Egglescliffe | 10,250 | 18.1 | 10.4 | B |
| Ingleby Barwick | 23,380 | 15.2 | 5.7 | A− |
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 23,352 | 59.3 | 33.4 | D− |
| Stainton | 1,817 | 25 | 15 | C+ |
| Hutton Rudby | 1,955 | 5.5 | 2.9 | A+ |
| Middleton St George | 4,756 | 40.9 | 12.3 | C− |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 84,824 | 63.5 | 32.2 | D− |
Yarm records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Thornaby-on-Tees and Stockton-on-Tees record more. Egglescliffe, 1.8 miles away, records 18.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Yarm’s 77.
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
- A prison inside the boundary. police.uk counted 1,533 at or near a prison (98% violent) over three years. They count in Yarm’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- 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 Yarm 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 Yarm
Is Yarm safe?
Police recorded 77 violent and sexual offences and 10.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Yarm’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: less crime per resident than 2% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Yarm has less crime per resident than 2%. 27% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Yarm?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 398%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 16%, shoplifting and theft rose 140% and anti-social behaviour fell 50%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Yarm?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,598 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (115) and other theft (59), with 84 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Yarm 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 Yarm’s 77 and 10.7, 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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