Beck Row War Memorial · Photo: Adrian S Pye · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Beck Row records about as much crime as the typical place among UK towns
Violence recorded locally dropped 12% in a year. Overall, it grades B− for safety (#17 of 34 in Suffolk). The typical town its size sees 4.5 cases of criminal damage & arson per 1,000 residents; Beck Row sees 7.8, or 32 in the 12 months to August 2026. The yearly rates were 24.1 violent and sexual offences and 10.0 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage 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 Beck Row
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 12% less violent crime per resident in Beck Row than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Beck Row has the 388th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Hoveton and Wroxham, Hamble-le-Rice and Wilton, higher than Sible Hedingham, Bourton-on-the-Water and Coggeshall. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Beck Row’s B− for safety
A fairly firm grade. Built on 423 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Beck Row against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How Beck Row’s neighbourhoods rank in England
38% 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.
Beck Row’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 Beck Row 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 -12% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +53% (towns its size -1%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Beck Row runs highest on criminal damage & arson (7.8 per 1,000 against 4.5). Other theft and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 84 | 20.3 | 22.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 32 | 7.8 | 4.5 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 27 | 6.5 | 8.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 15 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 10 | 2.4 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 9 | 2.2 | 2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 8 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 6 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 5 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 5 | 1.2 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 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.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 72% of Beck Row’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” (63% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 7% 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. 152 crimes.
388th of 706: Beck Row among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | Little Eriswell Suffolk | 4,120 | 8.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 24 | Worlingham Suffolk | 3,618 | 10.3 | 4.4 | 2 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 55 | Trimley St Mary Suffolk | 3,736 | 13.7 | 4.2 | 3.2 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 115 | Rendlesham Suffolk | 3,185 | 17.2 | 4.9 | 1.7 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 385 | Sible Hedingham Essex | 4,261 | 25.7 | 8.3 | 10 | B− |
| 386 | Bourton-on-the-Water Gloucestershire | 4,177 | 23.7 | 10.4 | 8 | B− |
| 387 | Coggeshall Essex | 3,767 | 24.7 | 9.4 | 6.4 | B− |
| 388 | Beck Row Suffolk | 4,129 | 24.1 | 10 | 3.6 | B− |
| 389 | Stokesley North Yorkshire | 4,906 | 22.7 | 11.6 | 8.8 | B− |
| 390 | Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire | 5,852 | 25.5 | 8.9 | 7.4 | B− |
| 391 | Doddington and Wimblington Cambridgeshire | 4,279 | 25.9 | 8.6 | 3 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 706 | 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 Beck Row, and others in Suffolk.
Crime in Beck Row 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 12 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 3 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
One person died in collisions on Beck Row’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 8 collisions with injuries inside Beck Row in five years, in which one person died (1 was a pedestrian). 3 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 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; Beck Row’s one death is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Beck Row’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; Beck Row had 3.
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 Beck Row’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Beck Row
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beck Row | 4,129 | 24.1 | 10 | B− |
| Mildenhall | 9,684 | 38.8 | 13.9 | C− |
| Little Eriswell | 4,120 | 8.6 | 1.4 | A+ |
| Lakenheath | 4,567 | 19 | 8.9 | B |
| Isleham | 2,287 | 16.5 | 7.3 | B+ |
| Red Lodge | 5,771 | 31.8 | 9.1 | C |
| Fordham | 2,566 | 22.2 | 11.2 | B− |
| Hockwold cum Wilton | 1,303 | 12 | 6.1 | A |
Beck Row records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Mildenhall and Red Lodge record more. Little Eriswell, 2.5 miles away, records 8.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Beck Row’s 24.1.
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 Beck Row 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 Beck Row
Is Beck Row safe?
Police recorded 24.1 violent and sexual offences and 10 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Beck Row’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 46% of UK towns. Among 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Beck Row is 388th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Beck Row?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 12%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 53%, shoplifting and theft fell 13% and anti-social behaviour rose 286%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Beck Row?
Violence & sexual offences: 84 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (32) and public order (15), with 27 reports of anti-social behaviour.
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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