Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0Hadston records shoplifting at 3.4 times the rate of a typical town its size
Recorded violence fell 24% in a year. Still, it has more violent crime than 79% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 95%. Hadston’s overall Safety Grade is D (#15 of 20 in Northumberland): more crime per resident than 87% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. The local count comes to 36.2 violent and sexual offences and 22.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people each year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hadston
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 24% less violent crime per resident in Hadston 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 37% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Hadston’s D
A fairly firm grade. Built on 462 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hadston 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, Hadston runs highest on shoplifting (6.3 per 1,000 against 1.8), public order (11.1 per 1,000 against 3.6) and anti-social behaviour (26.2 per 1,000 against 8.8).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 74 | 27.3 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 71 | 26.2 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 33 | 12.2 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 30 | 11.1 | 3.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 17 | 6.3 | 1.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 9 | 3.3 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 9 | 3.3 | 1.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 6 | 2.2 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 6 | 2.2 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 1.1 | 1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 3 | 1.1 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 2 | 0.7 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
“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 crime in Hadston has moved
Northumbria Police published two months short or not at all (Jan 2026 and Feb 2026), so the line breaks there and those months are left out of the rates. “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 -24% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -37% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +18% (towns its size +0%).
How Hadston compares with UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 51 | Corbridge Northumberland | 2,888 | 10.8 | 4.2 | 6.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 214 | Rothbury Northumberland | 2,025 | 14.1 | 8 | 2.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 443 | Seaton Sluice Northumberland | 2,957 | 19.5 | 9.9 | 15 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 529 | Ellington Northumberland | 2,131 | 18.2 | 14.9 | 15.2 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 804 | Leadgate County Durham | 3,339 | 40.8 | 17.6 | 12.7 | D |
| 805 | Hawkesbury Warwickshire | 2,288 | 40.2 | 18.4 | 4.4 | D |
| 806 | Langold Nottinghamshire | 2,603 | 34.2 | 24.6 | 11.9 | D |
| 807 | Hadston Northumberland | 2,713 | 36.2 | 22.9 | 8.2 | D |
| 808 | Whyteleafe Surrey | 3,174 | 37.4 | 21.9 | 16.3 | D |
| 809 | Hersden Kent | 2,118 | 44.2 | 15.4 | 5.8 | D |
| 810 | Chattenden Kent | 2,417 | 40.6 | 19.3 | 7 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 856 | 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 Hadston, and others in Northumberland.
How Hadston’s neighbourhoods rank in England
0% 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.
Hadston’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.
Crime in Hadston 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 18 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 10 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 72% of Hadston’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 34% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (0% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 0% 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. 138 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Hadston’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 1 collision with injuries inside Hadston in five years. 0 people were killed or seriously injured.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Hadston is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Hadston’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Hadston had 0.
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 Hadston’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Hadston
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadston | 2,713 | 36.2 | 22.9 | D |
| South Broomhill | 1,520 | 46.8 | 1.6 | C− |
| Amble | 5,852 | 30.9 | 17.3 | C− |
| Warkworth | 1,412 | 16.5 | 9 | B+ |
| Widdrington Station | 2,495 | 30.3 | 13.3 | C |
| Felton | 1,270 | 3.6 | 3.1 | A+ |
| Ellington | 2,131 | 18.2 | 14.9 | B− |
| Lynemouth | 1,685 | 44.6 | 27 | D |
Hadston records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Lynemouth records more. South Broomhill, 1.5 miles away, records 46.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hadston’s 36.2.
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
- Some months are short. Northumbria Police published January 2026 and February 2026 only in part or not at all. Those months are left out of the rates, which average the months that were published in full; the raw counts include what was published.
- 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 Hadston 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 Hadston
Is Hadston safe?
Police recorded 36.2 violent and sexual offences and 22.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hadston’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 13% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Hadston has less crime per resident than 10%.
Is crime going up in Hadston?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 24%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 37%, shoplifting and theft rose 84% and anti-social behaviour rose 18%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Hadston?
Violence & sexual offences: 74 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (33) and public order (30), with 71 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hadston compare with Blyth?
Blyth records 49.3 violent and sexual offences and 23.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Hadston’s 36.2 and 22.9, 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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