Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Mansfield than in 96% of UK towns
Possession of weapons: police recorded 134 in Mansfield in the 12 months to August 2026, 2.1 per 1,000 residents against 1.1 in a typical town its size. Each year brought 56.4 violent and sexual offences and 22.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 1,000 residents. Graded on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it scores D− for safety. Violence recorded locally climbed 5% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Mansfield
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 5% more violent crime per resident in Mansfield 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 held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 117 UK towns and cities of 44,000 to 86,000 people, Mansfield has the 100th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Scunthorpe, Torquay and Canterbury, higher than Havant, Scarborough and Bloxwich. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
35% of Mansfield’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 21% 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.
What’s behind Mansfield’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 14,937 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Mansfield against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Lowest recorded crime in Ling Forest, Eakring and Kings Walk; highest in Ransom Wood
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling Forest | 2,466 | 12.2 | 6.6 | |
| Eakring | 2,666 | 14.5 | 4.4 | |
| Kings Walk | 3,503 | 13.6 | 6.9 | |
| Grange Farm | 2,500 | 13.1 | 10.4 | |
| Berry Hill | 3,256 | 16.4 | 9.7 | |
| Lindhurst | 2,832 | 19.5 | 8.7 | |
| Abbott | 2,232 | 25.1 | 10.9 | |
| Penniment | 2,980 | 31 | 12 | |
| Brick Kiln | 3,144 | 34.7 | 14.1 | |
| Bull Farm and Pleasley Hill | 4,261 | 34.6 | 18.1 | |
| Oakham | 2,737 | 36.4 | 19.5 | |
| Racecourse | 3,086 | 45.2 | 21.2 | |
| Ladybrook | 3,637 | 57.5 | 22.2 | |
| Sherwood | 1,799 | 67.8 | 20.6 | |
| Broomhill | 3,332 | 59.3 | 32.4 | |
| Sandhurst | 2,877 | 74.6 | 35.8 | |
| Newgate | 3,114 | 85.1 | 30.6 | |
| Oak Tree | 2,737 | 93.9 | 39 | |
| Carr Bank | 3,401 | 114.7 | 34 | |
| Portland | 2,827 | 124.6 | 46.8 | |
| Woodlands | 2,514 | 148.6 | 46 | |
| Ransom Wood | 1,547 | 167.9 | 43.5 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 2,116 | 36% violent |
| Petrol stations | 1,572 | 70% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 1,382 | 60% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 982 | 38% shoplifting & theft |
| Police stations | 562 | 48% drugs, public order & other |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 194 | 37% anti-social behaviour |
| Bus and coach stations | 82 | 26% anti-social behaviour |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Ransom Wood records 3.2× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Mansfield. 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 Mansfield. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Mansfield’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Mansfield runs highest on other crime (4.7 per 1,000 against 2.1), possession of weapons (2.1 per 1,000 against 1.1) and shoplifting (19.7 per 1,000 against 10.3).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 3,440 | 54.2 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 1,623 | 25.6 | 17.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 1,247 | 19.7 | 10.3 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 781 | 12.3 | 7.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 603 | 9.5 | 7.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 561 | 8.8 | 6.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 399 | 6.3 | 4.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 349 | 5.5 | 3.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 297 | 4.7 | 2.1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 225 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 139 | 2.2 | 1.4 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 134 | 2.1 | 1.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 55 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 43 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
“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.
100th of 117: Mansfield among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 9 | Carlton Nottinghamshire | 53,555 | 23.2 | 9.4 | 13 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 11 | Beeston Nottinghamshire | 52,359 | 24.6 | 11.4 | 22.1 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 97 | Havant Hampshire | 46,964 | 59.2 | 16.8 | 18.7 | D |
| 98 | Scarborough North Yorkshire | 59,505 | 58.8 | 17.2 | 22.9 | D |
| 99 | Bloxwich West Midlands | 51,891 | 52.3 | 25.8 | 20.9 | D− |
| 100 | Mansfield Nottinghamshire | 63,448 | 56.4 | 22.2 | 33.5 | D− |
| 101 | Burnley Lancashire | 78,266 | 52.7 | 26.2 | 23.4 | D− |
| 102 | Clacton-on-Sea Essex | 53,190 | 61.2 | 19.6 | 18.5 | D− |
| 103 | Bootle Merseyside | 53,722 | 61.5 | 19.9 | 15.9 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 117 | Grimsby Lincolnshire | 85,915 | 69.6 | 32.4 | 29.1 | 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 Mansfield, and others in Nottinghamshire.
35% of Mansfield residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
21% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 35% 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.
Mansfield’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 Mansfield 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 22 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 30 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 Mansfield identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 62% of Mansfield’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 16% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (64% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 11% of violent and 8% 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. 4,884 crimes.
How crime in Mansfield 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 +5% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles +0% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft -3% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour +1% (towns its size -2%).
Five people died in collisions on Mansfield’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 446 collisions with injuries inside Mansfield in five years, in which five people died (3 were pedestrians and 2 were cyclists). 114 people were killed or seriously injured: 32 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 Mansfield’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mansfield’s own rate (1.6) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Mansfield had 35.9 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 28% 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 Mansfield’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Mansfield
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mansfield | 63,448 | 56.4 | 22.2 | D− |
| Mansfield Woodhouse | 19,521 | 29.3 | 10.4 | C+ |
| Forest Town | 19,015 | 23.7 | 8.5 | B− |
| Sutton in Ashfield | 36,435 | 45 | 19.4 | D |
| Stanton Hill and Skegby | 4,568 | 39.9 | 18 | D |
| Kirkby-in-Ashfield | 21,262 | 35.7 | 16.4 | C− |
| Rainworth | 7,990 | 41.6 | 10 | C− |
| New Houghton | 1,431 | 50.3 | 22.4 | D |
Mansfield records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Mansfield Woodhouse, 1.9 miles away, records 29.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Mansfield’s 56.4.
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 Mansfield 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 Mansfield
Is Mansfield safe?
Police recorded 56.4 violent and sexual offences and 22.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Mansfield’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: less crime per resident than 4% of UK towns. Among 117 UK towns of 44,000 to 86,000 people, Mansfield is 100th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Mansfield?
By council ward, Ling Forest, Eakring and Kings Walk record the least violent and household crime per resident: 12.2, 14.5 and 13.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 167.9 in Ransom Wood.
Is crime going up in Mansfield?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 5%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft held steady 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 Mansfield?
Violence & sexual offences: 3,440 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (1,247) and criminal damage & arson (781), with 1,623 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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