Photo: David Martin · CC BY-SA 2.0Midsomer Norton records robbery at 2.2 times the rate of a typical town its size
Measured against the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, 54% of them record more crime per resident. Taking everything together, Midsomer Norton scores C (#22 of 49 in Somerset): more crime per resident than 70% of UK towns, measured on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026. Violence recorded locally dropped 7% in a year. Year on year, 33.1 violent and sexual offences and 10.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur per 1,000 residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Midsomer Norton
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% less violent crime per resident in Midsomer Norton 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 47% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Midsomer Norton has the 187th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Barnham, Connah's Quay and Market Drayton, higher than Pelsall, Guiseley and Gomersal and Birkenshaw. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 11% of Midsomer Norton’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Midsomer Norton’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 1,782 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Midsomer Norton 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 Midsomer Norton identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 1% of Midsomer Norton’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” (57% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 2% 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. 611 crimes.
1 in 9 Midsomer Norton residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
61% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% 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.
Midsomer Norton’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Midsomer Norton runs highest on robbery (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.5), burglary (3.3 per 1,000 against 2.4) and other crime (2.1 per 1,000 against 1.8). Criminal damage & arson and shoplifting sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 418 | 30.4 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 191 | 13.9 | 12.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 82 | 6 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 67 | 4.9 | 6.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 65 | 4.7 | 6.1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 52 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 46 | 3.3 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 41 | 3 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 29 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 16 | 1.2 | 0.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 8 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 5 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 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.
How crime in Midsomer Norton 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 -7% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +47% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -6% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +22% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Midsomer Norton 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 11 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.
Lowest recorded crime in Midsomer Norton North, Midsomer Norton Redfield and Westfield
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midsomer Norton North | 5,464 | 27.3 | 9.7 | |
| Midsomer Norton Redfield | 6,412 | 31.8 | 8.6 | |
| Westfield | 1,873 | 45.4 | 10.5 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 242 | 42% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 110 | 31% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 94 | 47% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Westfield records 1.5× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Midsomer Norton. 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 Midsomer Norton. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Midsomer Norton’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Midsomer Norton places 187th of 350 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
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| 36 | Nailsea Somerset | 15,919 | 18.8 | 8.4 | 8.9 | B |
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| 119 | Street Somerset | 12,707 | 28.3 | 7.3 | 12.4 | C+ |
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| 184 | Pelsall West Midlands | 10,455 | 25.5 | 17.2 | 10.1 | C |
| 185 | Guiseley West Yorkshire | 12,462 | 30 | 13 | 22.1 | C |
| 186 | Gomersal and Birkenshaw West Yorkshire | 13,948 | 26 | 17.2 | 12.4 | C |
| 187 | Midsomer Norton Somerset | 13,749 | 33.1 | 10.1 | 9.2 | C |
| 188 | Teignmouth Devon | 15,314 | 32 | 11.3 | 12.3 | C |
| 189 | Kirk Sandall and Edenthorpe South Yorkshire | 13,090 | 24.2 | 19.1 | 7.6 | C |
| 190 | Ringwood Hampshire | 12,789 | 28.8 | 14.9 | 13.6 | C |
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| 234 | Wells Somerset | 12,097 | 37.3 | 11.5 | 17.6 | C− |
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| 238 | Wellington Somerset | 13,815 | 40.8 | 8.8 | 7.9 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 350 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | 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 Midsomer Norton, and others in Somerset.
No one died in a collision on Midsomer Norton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 31 collisions with injuries inside Midsomer Norton in five years. 7 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 0 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 Midsomer Norton’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Midsomer Norton’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Midsomer Norton’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 16 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Midsomer Norton had 7.
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 Midsomer Norton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Midsomer Norton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midsomer Norton | 13,749 | 33.1 | 10.1 | C |
| Radstock | 9,983 | 42.2 | 13.9 | C− |
| Chilcompton | 1,857 | 17.6 | 4.7 | A− |
| Paulton | 6,502 | 21.3 | 7.1 | B |
| High Littleton | 1,655 | 24 | 6.7 | B− |
| Timsbury | 2,506 | 18.8 | 5.9 | B+ |
| Coleford | 2,235 | 17.5 | 6.9 | B+ |
| Peasedown St John | 6,668 | 23.8 | 6 | B |
Midsomer Norton records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Radstock records more. Chilcompton, 1.6 miles away, records 17.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Midsomer Norton’s 33.1.
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 Midsomer Norton 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 Midsomer Norton
Is Midsomer Norton safe?
Police recorded 33.1 violent and sexual offences and 10.1 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Midsomer Norton’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 30% of UK towns. Among 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Midsomer Norton is 187th from the least crime. 11% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Midsomer Norton?
By council ward, Midsomer Norton North, Midsomer Norton Redfield and Westfield record the least violent and household crime per resident: 27.3, 31.8 and 45.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 45.4 in Westfield.
Is crime going up in Midsomer Norton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 47%, shoplifting and theft fell 6% and anti-social behaviour rose 22%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Midsomer Norton?
Violence & sexual offences: 418 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (82) and criminal damage & arson (67), with 191 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Midsomer Norton compare with Bath?
Bath records 41.6 violent and sexual offences and 16.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Midsomer Norton’s 33.1 and 10.1, 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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