Photo: Bob1960evens · CC BY-SA 3.0Langold records criminal damage & arson at 4.2 times the rate of a typical town its size
Violence recorded locally dropped 17% in a year. Even so, violent crime here is higher than in 76% of UK towns; burglary, vehicle crime and damage, higher than in 96%. The overall Safety Grade is D (#43 of 49 in Nottinghamshire), which means more crime per resident than 87% of UK towns, judged on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Its police logs show 34.2 violent and sexual offences and 24.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Langold
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 17% less violent crime per resident in Langold 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 rose 35% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
53% of Langold’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 0% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The D for Langold, and how it is built
A fairly firm grade. Built on 459 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Langold 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, Langold runs highest on other crime (6.1 per 1,000 against 1.5), criminal damage & arson (18.8 per 1,000 against 4.5) and vehicle crime (6.9 per 1,000 against 2).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 68 | 26.1 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 52 | 20 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 49 | 18.8 | 4.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 18 | 6.9 | 2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 16 | 6.1 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 16 | 6.1 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 10 | 3.8 | 1.9 |
| Public order | not graded | 9 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 7 | 2.7 | 1.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 4 | 1.5 | 0.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 3 | 1.2 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| 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.
53% of Langold residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 53% 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.
Langold’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 Langold 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+ |
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| 49 | Sutton Bonington Nottinghamshire | 2,064 | 4.8 | 10 | 2.8 | A |
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| 54 | Gamston (Rushcliffe) Nottinghamshire | 2,171 | 9.8 | 5.2 | 2.5 | A |
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| 88 | Collingham Nottinghamshire | 2,870 | 10 | 6.9 | 6 | A |
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| 176 | Farnsfield Nottinghamshire | 3,217 | 10.3 | 10 | 6.4 | A− |
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| 803 | Thornley County Durham | 2,543 | 30.9 | 27.4 | 3.8 | D |
| 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 |
| … | ||||||
| 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 Langold, and others in Nottinghamshire.
How crime in Langold 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 -17% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +35% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -41% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +21% (towns its size +0%).
Crime in Langold 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 30 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 9 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police in Langold identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 78% of Langold’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 12% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (69% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 12% 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. 160 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Langold’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 7 collisions with injuries inside Langold in five years. 4 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 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 Langold is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Langold’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; Langold 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 Langold’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Langold
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langold | 2,603 | 34.2 | 24.6 | D |
| Carlton in Lindrick | 5,460 | 26.4 | 17.3 | C |
| Blyth | 1,264 | 16.9 | 34.6 | C− |
| Woodsetts | 1,695 | 11.6 | 10 | A− |
| Harworth and Bircotes | 8,885 | 31.9 | 21.2 | C− |
| Tickhill | 4,909 | 14.1 | 13 | B |
| Dinnington | 10,962 | 47.3 | 24.9 | D |
| Shireoaks | 1,774 | 27.8 | 16.4 | C |
Langold records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Dinnington records more. Carlton in Lindrick, 1.3 miles away, records 26.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Langold’s 34.2.
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
- 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 Langold 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 Langold
Is Langold safe?
Police recorded 34.2 violent and sexual offences and 24.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Langold’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, Langold has less crime per resident than 10%.
Is crime going up in Langold?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 17%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 35%, shoplifting and theft fell 41% and anti-social behaviour rose 21%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Langold?
Violence & sexual offences: 68 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (49) and vehicle crime (18), with 52 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Langold compare with Worksop?
Worksop records 40.2 violent and sexual offences and 20.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Langold’s 34.2 and 24.6, 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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