Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Sutton in Ashfield sees more crime per resident than nine in ten UK towns
Graded on crimes police recorded inside Sutton in Ashfield’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it scores D for safety: #46 of 49 in Nottinghamshire. Robbery stands out: 2 per 1,000 residents locally, against 0.5 in a typical town its size, with 74 recorded in the 12 months to August 2026. Violent crime was up 16% in a year. Police counts work out at 45.0 violent and sexual offences and 19.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Sutton in Ashfield
One ward carries much of the rate
Carsic ward recorded 1,309 of Sutton in Ashfield’s 4,914 violent and sexual offences in three years: 115.1 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Sutton in Ashfield the figure is 36.4. Where in Sutton in Ashfield ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 16% more violent crime per resident in Sutton in Ashfield than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 12% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 176 UK towns of 26,000 to 49,000 people, Sutton in Ashfield has the 133rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Pontypool, King's Lynn and Hatfield, higher than Billingham, Port Talbot and Bletchley. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
37% of Sutton in Ashfield’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 10% 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 Sutton in Ashfield, and how it is built
A firm grade. Built on 7,031 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Sutton in Ashfield 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, Sutton in Ashfield runs highest on robbery (2 per 1,000 against 0.5), bicycle theft (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.3) and other crime (5.2 per 1,000 against 1.8).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,666 | 45.7 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 702 | 19.3 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 509 | 14 | 6.1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 376 | 10.3 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 279 | 7.7 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 267 | 7.3 | 4.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 188 | 5.2 | 1.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 181 | 5 | 2.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 167 | 4.6 | 2.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 109 | 3 | 1.9 |
| Robbery | Violent | 74 | 2 | 0.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 67 | 1.8 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 42 | 1.2 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 26 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
“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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
37% of Sutton in Ashfield residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
10% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 37% 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.
Sutton in Ashfield’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 Sutton in Ashfield has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-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 +16% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +12% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -3% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -15% (towns its size -4%).
Lowest recorded crime in Huthwaite & Brierley, The Dales and Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood; highest in Carsic
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huthwaite & Brierley | 2,207 | 11.6 | 5.1 | |
| The Dales | 2,971 | 21 | 9.4 | |
| Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood | 3,169 | 19.4 | 11.7 | |
| Ashfields | 3,987 | 22.7 | 12.8 | |
| Sutton St Mary's | 3,636 | 23.9 | 11.9 | |
| Sutton Central & New Cross | 7,822 | 39.5 | 17.4 | |
| Leamington | 4,119 | 57.1 | 26.9 | |
| Skegby | 4,733 | 67 | 22.2 | |
| Carsic | 3,791 | 115.1 | 46.5 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 954 | 38% shoplifting & theft |
| Hospitals | 769 | 58% violent |
| Shopping areas | 682 | 30% violent |
| Supermarkets | 663 | 65% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 341 | 68% shoplifting & theft |
| Police stations | 152 | 47% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 143 | 46% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Carsic records 3.2× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Sutton in Ashfield. 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 Sutton in Ashfield. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Sutton in Ashfield’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Crime in Sutton in Ashfield 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 20 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 23 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Set against 176 towns its size, Sutton in Ashfield is 133rd
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
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| 6 | West Bridgford Nottinghamshire | 36,489 | 16.6 | 9 | 21.7 | B+ |
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| 33 | Arnold Nottinghamshire | 40,016 | 26.6 | 10.1 | 12.2 | C+ |
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| 80 | Hucknall Nottinghamshire | 35,848 | 34.4 | 14.3 | 23.4 | C− |
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| 127 | Worksop Nottinghamshire | 43,435 | 40.2 | 20.9 | 32.9 | D |
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| 130 | Billingham County Durham | 33,917 | 38.6 | 24.3 | 15.5 | D |
| 131 | Port Talbot West Glamorgan | 31,557 | 48.8 | 14.2 | 19.5 | D |
| 132 | Bletchley Buckinghamshire | 45,018 | 46.1 | 18.2 | 20.3 | D |
| 133 | Sutton in Ashfield Nottinghamshire | 36,435 | 45 | 19.4 | 24.7 | D |
| 134 | Merthyr Tydfil Mid Glamorgan | 39,542 | 45.6 | 19.1 | 25.4 | D |
| 135 | Chorley Lancashire | 39,539 | 48.7 | 16.2 | 15 | D |
| 136 | Northfleet Kent | 29,892 | 45 | 20.6 | 15.5 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 176 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | 28,979 | 105 | 32.9 | 33.7 | 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 Sutton in Ashfield, and others in Nottinghamshire.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 69% of Sutton in Ashfield’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 14% 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 12% of violent and 6% 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. 2,291 crimes.
Four people died in collisions on Sutton in Ashfield’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 294 collisions with injuries inside Sutton in Ashfield in five years, in which four people died (1 was a pedestrian). 73 people were killed or seriously injured: 23 on foot and 4 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Sutton in Ashfield’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sutton in Ashfield’s own rate (2.2) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Sutton in Ashfield had 40.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8). 32% of them were on foot, against 30% across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
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 Sutton in Ashfield’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Sutton in Ashfield
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton in Ashfield | 36,435 | 45 | 19.4 | D |
| Stanton Hill and Skegby | 4,568 | 39.9 | 18 | D |
| Huthwaite | 5,069 | 43.1 | 14.3 | D |
| Kirkby-in-Ashfield | 21,262 | 35.7 | 16.4 | C− |
| Mansfield | 63,448 | 56.4 | 22.2 | D− |
| Annesley Woodhouse | 6,162 | 31.2 | 11.7 | C |
| Tibshelf | 4,352 | 33.8 | 9.7 | C |
| South Normanton and Pinxton | 16,028 | 33.1 | 12.9 | C |
Sutton in Ashfield records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Mansfield records more. Stanton Hill and Skegby, 1.1 miles away, records 39.9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Sutton in Ashfield’s 45.
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
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 769 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Sutton in Ashfield’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 Sutton in Ashfield 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 Sutton in Ashfield
Is Sutton in Ashfield safe?
Police recorded 45 violent and sexual offences and 19.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Sutton in Ashfield’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 9% of UK towns. Among 176 UK towns of 26,000 to 49,000 people, Sutton in Ashfield is 133rd from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Sutton in Ashfield?
By council ward, Huthwaite & Brierley, The Dales and Sutton Junction & Harlow Wood record the least violent and household crime per resident: 11.6, 21 and 19.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 115.1 in Carsic.
Is crime going up in Sutton in Ashfield?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 16%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 12%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour fell 15%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Sutton in Ashfield?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,666 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (509) and criminal damage & arson (376), with 702 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Sutton in Ashfield compare with Mansfield?
Mansfield records 56.4 violent and sexual offences and 22.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Sutton in Ashfield’s 45 and 19.4, 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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