Photo: John M · CC BY-SA 2.0Featherstone is about average among UK towns for recorded crime
Police counts work out at 24.5 violent and sexual offences and 9.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually. All told, Featherstone grades B− for safety (#19 of 46 in Staffordshire): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Violent crime was up 20% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Featherstone
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 20% more violent crime per resident in Featherstone than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 33% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Featherstone has the 231st lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Rowlands Gill, Llanharan and Brynna and Calverton, higher than Yaxley, Bishop's Waltham and Burscough. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Featherstone’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 718 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Featherstone 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, Featherstone runs highest on other crime (3.8 per 1,000 against 1.5), vehicle crime (2.7 per 1,000 against 2) and violence & sexual offences (26.5 per 1,000 against 22.4). Criminal damage & arson and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 188 | 26.5 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 35 | 4.9 | 8.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 27 | 3.8 | 1.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 23 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 23 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 20 | 2.8 | 4.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 19 | 2.7 | 2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 10 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 4 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 4 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
How Featherstone’s neighbourhoods rank in England
9% 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.
Featherstone’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 Featherstone has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 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 +20% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -33% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +75% (towns its size +0%).
231st of 546: Featherstone among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merley Dorset | 5,489 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 3.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 168 | Perton Staffordshire | 9,302 | 24.1 | 6.1 | 4.2 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 228 | Yaxley Cambridgeshire | 9,403 | 23.8 | 9.8 | 6.1 | B− |
| 229 | Bishop's Waltham Hampshire | 6,957 | 25.2 | 8.3 | 5.3 | B− |
| 230 | Burscough Lancashire | 8,773 | 25.8 | 7.8 | 10.5 | B− |
| 231 | Featherstone Staffordshire | 7,096 | 24.5 | 9.2 | 2.3 | B− |
| 232 | Overseal and Castle Gresley Derbyshire | 5,055 | 21.9 | 11.9 | 5.5 | B− |
| 233 | Banstead Surrey | 8,929 | 21.3 | 12.5 | 12 | B− |
| 234 | Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire | 8,026 | 23.9 | 9.9 | 6.2 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 282 | Penkridge Staffordshire | 8,364 | 27.5 | 9.8 | 6.9 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 301 | Werrington Staffordshire | 6,012 | 31.5 | 7.4 | 2.4 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 342 | Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Staffordshire | 6,798 | 31.3 | 10.3 | 8.2 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 546 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | 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 Featherstone, and others in Staffordshire.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 72% of Featherstone’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 5% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (70% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 9% of violent and 3% 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. 236 crimes.
Crime in Featherstone 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 7 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 4 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Two people died in collisions on Featherstone’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 19 collisions with injuries inside Featherstone in five years, in which two people died. 5 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Featherstone’s two people are context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Featherstone’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 6 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Featherstone had 5.
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 Featherstone’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Featherstone
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Featherstone | 7,096 | 24.5 | 9.2 | B− |
| Coven | 2,399 | 15 | 6.4 | A− |
| Essington | 3,471 | 32.8 | 15.9 | C− |
| Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay | 17,647 | 24.7 | 10.8 | C+ |
| Wolverhampton | 234,029 | 50.6 | 21.7 | D |
| Brewood | 2,552 | 25.2 | 10.6 | C+ |
| Codsall | 11,867 | 21.8 | 8.7 | B |
| Willenhall | 49,582 | 44.1 | 28.8 | D |
Featherstone records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Coven, 2 miles away, records 15 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Featherstone’s 24.5.
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
- A prison inside the boundary. police.uk counted 168 at or near a prison (65% violent) over three years. They count in Featherstone’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 Featherstone 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 Featherstone
Is Featherstone safe?
Police recorded 24.5 violent and sexual offences and 9.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Featherstone’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 47% of UK towns. Among 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Featherstone is 231st from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Featherstone?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 20%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 33%, shoplifting and theft rose 108% and anti-social behaviour rose 75%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Featherstone?
Violence & sexual offences: 188 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other crime (27) and public order (23), with 35 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Featherstone compare with Wolverhampton?
Wolverhampton records 50.6 violent and sexual offences and 21.7 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Featherstone’s 24.5 and 9.2, 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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