Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0Crime per resident in Carlton runs higher than in 94% of UK towns
With 19 cases in the 12 months to August 2026, burglary reaches 8.9 per 1,000 residents in Carlton, well above the typical 1.6. Its Safety Grade is D, on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Violence recorded locally climbed 5% in a year. Police counts work out at 45.3 violent and sexual offences and 27.9 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 Carlton
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 5% more violent crime per resident in Carlton than in the year before; across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 32% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Carlton’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 467 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Carlton 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, Carlton runs highest on burglary (8.9 per 1,000 against 1.6), public order (11.3 per 1,000 against 2.4) and anti-social behaviour (24 per 1,000 against 5.3).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 90 | 42.4 | 16.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 86 | 40.5 | 0 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 51 | 24 | 5.3 |
| Public order | not graded | 24 | 11.3 | 2.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 21 | 9.9 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 19 | 8.9 | 1.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 18 | 8.5 | 2.5 |
| Other crime | not graded | 10 | 4.7 | 1.1 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 9 | 4.2 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 5 | 2.4 | 0.6 |
| Robbery | Violent | 5 | 2.4 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.9 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 2 | 0.9 | 0 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.5 | 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 Carlton compares with UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 130 | Oxspring South Yorkshire | 1,196 | 6.1 | 6.7 | 2.5 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 183 | Silkstone Common South Yorkshire | 1,278 | 7.9 | 6.5 | 1.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 279 | Hoylandswaine South Yorkshire | 1,038 | 10.9 | 5.1 | 1.6 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 602 | Harthill South Yorkshire | 1,729 | 12.7 | 8.3 | 3.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 1713 | Berryfield Wiltshire | 1,094 | 53.6 | 18.6 | 4 | D |
| 1714 | New Houghton Derbyshire | 1,431 | 50.3 | 22.4 | 4.4 | D |
| 1715 | Micklefield West Yorkshire | 2,064 | 50.6 | 22.1 | 6.9 | D |
| 1716 | Carlton South Yorkshire | 2,125 | 45.3 | 27.9 | 39.5 | D |
| 1717 | Barmouth Gwynedd | 1,986 | 58.5 | 14.8 | 19 | D |
| 1718 | Ansley Warwickshire | 1,046 | 50 | 24.5 | 6.4 | D |
| 1719 | Martlesham Heath Suffolk | 2,730 | 61.5 | 13.9 | 36.4 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 1764 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | 1,928 | 259 | 64.7 | 57.2 | 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 Carlton, and others in South Yorkshire.
Crime in Carlton 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 23 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 50 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 Carlton identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 75% of Carlton’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 28% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (53% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% 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. 157 crimes.
How crime in Carlton 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 +5% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles -32% (towns its size +0%), shoplifting and theft +35% (towns its size +4%), anti-social behaviour -19% (towns its size -1%).
No one died in a collision on Carlton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 22 collisions with injuries inside Carlton in five years. 6 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Carlton is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Carlton’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; Carlton had 6.
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 Carlton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Carlton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlton | 2,125 | 45.3 | 27.9 | D |
| Royston | 10,755 | 37.5 | 18.8 | C− |
| Cudworth and Shafton | 12,472 | 38.4 | 18.8 | D |
| Barnsley | 71,394 | 61 | 30.5 | D− |
| Darton | 15,016 | 25.6 | 12.2 | C+ |
| South Hiendley | 1,750 | 26.9 | 11.8 | C+ |
| Brierley | 2,714 | 22.1 | 15.6 | C+ |
| Havercroft and Ryhill | 5,204 | 43.8 | 14.4 | D |
Carlton records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Barnsley records more. Royston, 0.9 miles away, records 37.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Carlton’s 45.3.
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 Carlton 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 Carlton
Is Carlton safe?
Police recorded 45.3 violent and sexual offences and 27.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Carlton’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 6% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Carlton has less crime per resident than 3%.
Is crime going up in Carlton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 5%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 32%, shoplifting and theft rose 35% and anti-social behaviour fell 19%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Carlton?
Violence & sexual offences: 90 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (86) and public order (24), with 51 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Carlton compare with Barnsley?
Barnsley records 61 violent and sexual offences and 30.5 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Carlton’s 45.3 and 27.9, 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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