No grade for Cleeve, but its recorded crime is here
Crimes police recorded inside Cleeve’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 are shown here, without a Safety Grade. This Somerset town has fewer than 1,000 residents, and Safety is graded only from 1,000, where a handful of incidents no longer moves the rate a long way. Out of every 1,000 residents, 20.5 violent and sexual offences and 10.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are reported annually.
Violent crime
20.5
per 1,000 residents a year · graded
Homes & vehicles
10.7
burglary, vehicle crime, damage · graded
Shoplifting & theft
108.3
per 1,000 a year · not graded
Anti-social behaviour
5.1
reports per 1,000 a year · not graded
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
By type
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Shoplifting60
Other theft26.5
Violence & sexual offences13.9
Public order5.6
Anti-social behaviour5.6
Burglary4.2
Robbery2.8
Criminal damage & arson1.4
Other crime1.4
Theft from the person1.4
Drugs0
Vehicle crime0
Bicycle theft0
Possession of weapons0
Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Not gradedTypical town its size
Against the typical town its size, Cleeve runs highest on other theft (26.5 per 1,000 against 2.5). Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
Category
In the grade
Reports
Per 1,000
Typical
Shoplifting
not graded
43
60
0
Other theft
not graded
19
26.5
2.5
Violence & sexual offences
Violent
10
13.9
16.6
Public order
not graded
4
5.6
2.4
Anti-social behaviour
not graded
4
5.6
5.3
Burglary
Home & vehicle
3
4.2
1.6
Robbery
Violent
2
2.8
0
Criminal damage & arson
Home & vehicle
1
1.4
3.2
Other crime
not graded
1
1.4
1.1
Theft from the person
not graded
1
1.4
0
Drugs
not graded
0
0
0.6
Vehicle crime
Home & vehicle
0
0
1.5
Bicycle theft
not graded
0
0
0
Possession of weapons
Violent
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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
violent and sexual offences, 12 months to August 2026
4
homes & vehicles
63
shoplifting & theft
111
of the three, per 1,000
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 6 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 88 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Trend · monthly
12 violent and sexual offences in the last 12 months, against 14 the year before
Violent crime per 1,000 a year
CleeveUK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people
Homes & vehicles per 1,000 a year
CleeveUK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people
“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: shoplifting and theft -28% (towns its size +4%).
Cleeve records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Wrington, 2.1 miles away, records 18 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Cleeve’s 20.5.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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 Cleeve sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
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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 Cleeve
Is Cleeve safe?
Police recorded 20.5 violent and sexual offences and 10.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Cleeve’s built-up area).
Is crime going up in Cleeve?
Police recorded 12 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 14 in the 12 months before. With numbers this small, a few crimes change the rate a lot.
What is the most common crime in Cleeve?
Shoplifting: 43 in the 12 months to August 2026. Next came other theft (19) and violence & sexual offences (10), with 4 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Cleeve 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 Cleeve’s 20.5 and 10.7, 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) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: John Lord · CC BY-SA 2.0