Photo: Neil Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0Berrow and Brean stands out for burglary: 3 times the rate of a typical town its size
Of all the kinds of crime, burglary is where Berrow and Brean departs most from towns its size: 4.9 per 1,000 against 1.6. Recorded violence held steady in a year. Taking everything together, Berrow and Brean scores C−: more crime per resident than 85% of UK towns, measured on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Berrow and Brean
Neighbourhood ranks
100% of Berrow and Brean’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.
What’s behind Berrow and Brean’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 378 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Berrow and Brean against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Police in Berrow and Brean identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 0% of Berrow and Brean’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 2% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (62% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 10% of violent and 7% 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. 127 crimes.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Berrow and Brean runs highest on burglary (4.9 per 1,000 against 1.6), public order (7.1 per 1,000 against 2.4) and violence & sexual offences (44.4 per 1,000 against 16.6).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 100 | 44.4 | 16.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 17 | 7.5 | 5.3 |
| Public order | not graded | 16 | 7.1 | 2.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 12 | 5.3 | 3.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 11 | 4.9 | 2.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 11 | 4.9 | 1.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 4 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Other crime | not graded | 4 | 1.8 | 1.1 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 3 | 1.3 | 0 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 1.3 | 0.6 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.9 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.4 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.4 | 0 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
How Berrow and Brean compares with UK towns of 2,000 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 57 | Tatworth Somerset | 2,287 | 11.7 | 5 | 2.2 | A |
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| 97 | Merriott Somerset | 2,068 | 12.9 | 6 | 7.3 | A |
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| 197 | Coleford Somerset | 2,235 | 17.5 | 6.9 | 5.1 | B+ |
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| 201 | Timsbury Somerset | 2,506 | 18.8 | 5.9 | 10.5 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 508 | Porthmadog Gwynedd | 2,579 | 42.7 | 12.7 | 26.8 | C− |
| 509 | Trimsaran Dyfed | 2,190 | 42.3 | 13.2 | 4.3 | C− |
| 510 | Maple Cross Hertfordshire | 2,580 | 38.8 | 16.8 | 4.9 | C− |
| 511 | Berrow and Brean Somerset | 2,252 | 44.3 | 11.7 | 8.4 | C− |
| 512 | Meriden West Midlands | 2,203 | 27.8 | 28.1 | 7.1 | C− |
| 513 | Merlin's Bridge Dyfed | 2,220 | 46.6 | 9.6 | 5.6 | C− |
| 514 | Scholes (near Cleckheaton) West Yorkshire | 2,896 | 42 | 14.7 | 7.1 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 550 | Avonmouth Bristol | 2,643 | 82.9 | 54.6 | 60.4 | 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 Berrow and Brean, and others in Somerset.
For every 1,000 residents, about 45 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
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 8 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Berrow and Brean has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 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 +4% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles +13% (towns its size +0%).
No one died in a collision on Berrow and Brean’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 8 collisions with injuries inside Berrow and Brean in five years. 4 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 2 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Berrow and Brean is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Berrow and Brean’s size at the median for UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people would see about 1 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Berrow and Brean 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 Berrow and Brean’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Berrow and Brean
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berrow and Brean | 2,252 | 44.3 | 11.7 | C− |
| Burnham-on-Sea | 16,317 | 39.9 | 10.3 | C− |
| Highbridge | 5,366 | 82.7 | 18 | D− |
| Hutton | 1,686 | 12.1 | 8.9 | A− |
| Weston-super-Mare | 84,600 | 57.4 | 17.2 | D |
| Locking | 3,819 | 44.6 | 11.8 | C− |
| Kewstoke | 1,609 | 95.5 | 10.8 | D− |
| Banwell | 2,178 | 27.2 | 10.6 | C+ |
Berrow and Brean records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Burnham-on-Sea, 2.9 miles away, records 39.9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Berrow and Brean’s 44.3.
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 Berrow and Brean 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 Berrow and Brean
Is Berrow and Brean safe?
Police recorded 44.3 violent and sexual offences and 11.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Berrow and Brean’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 15% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Berrow and Brean has less crime per resident than 6%.
Is crime going up in Berrow and Brean?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 13%, shoplifting and theft rose 13% and anti-social behaviour rose 113%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Berrow and Brean?
Violence & sexual offences: 100 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (16) and criminal damage & arson (12), with 17 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Berrow and Brean compare with Weston-super-Mare?
Weston-super-Mare records 57.4 violent and sexual offences and 17.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Berrow and Brean’s 44.3 and 11.7, 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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