Photo: JThomas · CC BY-SA 2.0Fradley has more violent crime per resident than three in five UK towns
Annual rates stand at 26.6 violent and sexual offences and 8.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents. Weighing it all, Fradley earns C+ for safety (#20 of 46 in Staffordshire), with close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area over September 2023 to August 2026. Violence recorded locally climbed 16% in a year. For its size, it sits below 44% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people on crime per resident.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Fradley
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 16% more violent crime per resident in Fradley than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 539 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people, Fradley has the 327th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Marsden, Earls Colne and Wirksworth, higher than Rudheath, Laceby and Bearwood. 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. 100% of Fradley’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 Fradley’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 382 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Fradley against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Most Fradley residents live in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
100% 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.
Fradley’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 Fradley 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 +16% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -32% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour -20% (towns its size +0%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Fradley runs highest on burglary (2.8 per 1,000 against 1.9), vehicle crime (2.8 per 1,000 against 2) and violence & sexual offences (29.4 per 1,000 against 22.4). Anti-social behaviour sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 106 | 29.4 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 20 | 5.5 | 8.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 12 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 10 | 2.8 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 10 | 2.8 | 2 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 8 | 2.2 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 8 | 2.2 | 3.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 8 | 2.2 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 0.8 | 1 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2 | 0.6 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| 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.
Fradley against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 45 | Cheddleton Staffordshire | 4,027 | 14.2 | 3.2 | 2.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 107 | Barton-under-Needwood Staffordshire | 4,713 | 16 | 6.7 | 2.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 111 | Stretton Staffordshire | 4,646 | 17.6 | 5.4 | 5 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 124 | Gnosall Staffordshire | 4,039 | 19.7 | 4 | 4.1 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 324 | Rudheath Cheshire | 4,803 | 30.5 | 4.7 | 2.6 | C+ |
| 325 | Laceby Lincolnshire | 3,284 | 24.1 | 11.2 | 10.5 | C+ |
| 326 | Bearwood Dorset | 4,134 | 23.1 | 12.1 | 12 | C+ |
| 327 | Fradley Staffordshire | 3,609 | 26.6 | 8.7 | 4.3 | C+ |
| 328 | Kelvedon and Feering Essex | 4,771 | 24.6 | 10.8 | 5.6 | C+ |
| 329 | Uppingham Rutland | 4,272 | 22.9 | 12.6 | 11.6 | C+ |
| 330 | Alderley Edge Cheshire | 4,496 | 25.1 | 10.7 | 15.4 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 539 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 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 Fradley, and others in Staffordshire.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 72% of Fradley’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 7% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (75% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 0% 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. 112 crimes.
Crime in Fradley 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 8 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.
No one died in a collision on Fradley’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 4 collisions with injuries inside Fradley in five years. 0 people were killed or seriously injured.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Fradley is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Fradley’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 3 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Fradley had 0.
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 Fradley’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Fradley
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fradley | 3,609 | 26.6 | 8.7 | C+ |
| Alrewas | 2,831 | 16.4 | 9.8 | B+ |
| Streethay | 2,166 | 37.3 | 10.6 | C− |
| King's Bromley | 1,031 | 13.9 | 4.2 | A |
| Whittington | 2,477 | 10.9 | 8.9 | A− |
| Lichfield | 32,586 | 34.1 | 14.7 | C− |
| Yoxall | 1,174 | 19.6 | 8.2 | B |
| Barton-under-Needwood | 4,713 | 16 | 6.7 | A− |
Fradley records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Streethay and Lichfield record more. Alrewas, 1.6 miles away, records 16.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Fradley’s 26.6.
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 Fradley 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 Fradley
Is Fradley safe?
Police recorded 26.6 violent and sexual offences and 8.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Fradley’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 44% of UK towns. Among 539 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people, Fradley is 327th from the least crime. 100% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Fradley?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 16%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 32%, shoplifting and theft rose 36% and anti-social behaviour fell 20%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Fradley?
Violence & sexual offences: 106 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other theft (12) and burglary (10), with 20 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Fradley compare with Burton upon Trent?
Burton upon Trent records 45.2 violent and sexual offences and 13.4 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Fradley’s 26.6 and 8.7, 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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