Photo: Cj1340 · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Corby records more violent crime than 86% of UK towns
Violence and property crime split as 41.1 violent and sexual offences and 13.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year. Violent crime was down 7% in a year. Graded on crimes police recorded inside Corby’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it scores C− for safety: #27 of 31 in Northamptonshire.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Corby
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% less violent crime per resident in Corby than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 15% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 106 UK towns and cities of 48,000 to 92,000 people, Corby has the 47th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Gosport, Stafford and Durham, higher than Hereford, Washington and Paignton. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Corby: C− for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 11,103 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Corby 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, Corby runs highest on possession of weapons (1.5 per 1,000 against 1.1) and anti-social behaviour (20.5 per 1,000 against 17.5). Public order and vehicle crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 2,468 | 36.2 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 1,397 | 20.5 | 17.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 603 | 8.8 | 10.3 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 442 | 6.5 | 7.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 391 | 5.7 | 7.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 369 | 5.4 | 6.6 |
| Drugs | not graded | 212 | 3.1 | 3.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 199 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 170 | 2.5 | 4.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 137 | 2 | 2.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 102 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 85 | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 63 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 17 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
“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 and cities of 50,000 or more.
Crime in Corby 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 12 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 15 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How Corby’s neighbourhoods rank in England
15% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 21% 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.
Corby’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 Corby has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent -7% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -15% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft -14% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour +2% (towns its size -2%).
Lowest recorded crime in Oakley, Corby West and Lloyds; highest in Kingswood
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakley | 15,832 | 24.4 | 6.7 | |
| Corby West | 13,246 | 35.1 | 11.3 | |
| Lloyds | 15,509 | 45.3 | 15.3 | |
| Corby Rural | 7,640 | 46.1 | 16.2 | |
| Kingswood | 15,937 | 56.3 | 17.7 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping areas | 911 | 54% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 667 | 64% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 531 | 37% violent |
| Petrol stations | 407 | 51% shoplifting & theft |
| Police stations | 123 | 60% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 114 | 49% violent |
| College and university buildings | 36 | 44% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Kingswood records 1.5× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Corby. 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 Corby. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Corby’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 67% of Corby’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (67% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% 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. 3,831 crimes.
Of 106 towns its size, Corby is 47th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 44 | Hereford Herefordshire | 60,471 | 41.7 | 11.1 | 17.4 | C− |
| 45 | Washington Tyne and Wear | 51,318 | 32.7 | 20.4 | 18 | C− |
| 46 | Paignton Devon | 67,509 | 40.2 | 13.7 | 16.3 | C− |
| 47 | Corby Northamptonshire | 68,164 | 41.1 | 13.2 | 16.4 | C− |
| 48 | Ashford Kent | 82,143 | 40.4 | 14.6 | 20.2 | C− |
| 49 | Ellesmere Port Cheshire | 65,425 | 44.3 | 10.8 | 14.9 | C− |
| 50 | Barry South Glamorgan | 56,589 | 40.2 | 15.3 | 20.9 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 70 | Kettering Northamptonshire | 63,149 | 49.6 | 14.2 | 16.5 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 74 | Wellingborough Northamptonshire | 54,421 | 48.9 | 19.1 | 21.7 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 106 | Doncaster South Yorkshire | 87,440 | 72.6 | 38.2 | 43.3 | 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 Corby, and others in Northamptonshire.
Four people died in collisions on Corby’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 327 collisions with injuries inside Corby in five years, in which four people died (1 was a cyclist). 69 people were killed or seriously injured: 17 on foot and 12 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more: at their median rate (1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Corby’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Corby’s own rate (1.2) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Corby had 20.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 25% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
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 Corby’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Corby
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corby | 68,164 | 41.1 | 13.2 | C− |
| Cottingham and Middleton | 1,365 | 16.6 | 6.1 | A− |
| Weldon | 3,042 | 17.9 | 7.8 | B+ |
| Geddington | 1,525 | 10.9 | 5.9 | A |
| Gretton | 1,519 | 17.8 | 6.4 | B+ |
| Brigstock | 1,436 | 22.8 | 11.8 | B− |
| Desborough | 11,899 | 25.6 | 11 | C+ |
| Rothwell | 8,623 | 37 | 12.4 | C− |
Corby records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Cottingham and Middleton, 2.6 miles away, records 16.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Corby’s 41.1.
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 Corby 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 Corby
Is Corby safe?
Police recorded 41.1 violent and sexual offences and 13.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Corby’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 17% of UK towns. Among 106 UK towns of 48,000 to 92,000 people, Corby is 47th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Corby?
By council ward, Oakley, Corby West and Lloyds record the least violent and household crime per resident: 24.4, 35.1 and 45.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 56.3 in Kingswood.
Is crime going up in Corby?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 15%, shoplifting and theft fell 14% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Corby?
Violence & sexual offences: 2,468 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (603) and criminal damage & arson (442), with 1,397 reports of anti-social behaviour.
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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