Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Exning records vehicle crime at 3.5 times the rate of a typical town its size
Exning grades C for safety overall: more crime per resident than 70% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Exning
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 24% less violent crime per resident in Exning than in the year before; across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 1,764 UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000 people, Exning has the 1,503rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than South Hetton, Orsett and Wrotham, higher than Medomsley, Chipping Campden and Brompton. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Exning grades C for safety
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
A fairly firm grade. Built on 265 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Exning against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
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.
Against the typical town its size, Exning runs highest on vehicle crime (5.4 per 1,000 against 1.5), criminal damage & arson (7.3 per 1,000 against 3.2) and other theft (4.9 per 1,000 against 2.5).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 54 | 26.4 | 16.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 15 | 7.3 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 11 | 5.4 | 1.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 10 | 4.9 | 2.5 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 9 | 4.4 | 5.3 |
| Public order | not graded | 7 | 3.4 | 2.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 7 | 3.4 | 1.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 7 | 3.4 | 1.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 1.5 | 0.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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.
Violent crime down 24% in a year, while towns its size held steady
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 -24% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles +27% (towns its size +0%).
“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).
Exning is 1,503rd of 1,764 UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Exning, and others in Suffolk.
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 17 | Great Bricett Suffolk | 1,518 | 5.7 | 2 | 1.1 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 54 | Elmsett Suffolk | 1,001 | 7 | 3 | 0.3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 58 | Sutton Common Suffolk | 1,262 | 9 | 1.3 | 2.4 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 104 | Laxfield Suffolk | 1,004 | 9.3 | 3 | 2 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 1500 | Medomsley County Durham | 1,216 | 27.7 | 15.4 | 3.3 | C |
| 1501 | Chipping Campden Gloucestershire | 2,120 | 31.4 | 11.7 | 2.9 | C |
| 1502 | Brompton North Yorkshire | 2,034 | 31.5 | 11.6 | 3.6 | C |
| 1503 | Exning Suffolk | 2,049 | 28 | 15.1 | 4.2 | C |
| 1504 | Elstree Hertfordshire | 1,737 | 26.3 | 16.9 | 8.6 | C |
| 1505 | Trelewis Mid Glamorgan | 2,022 | 28.4 | 14.8 | 3 | C |
| 1506 | Uffculme Devon | 2,041 | 33.7 | 9.6 | 3.2 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 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.
For every 1,000 residents, about 26 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
And about 16 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
No one died in a collision on Exning’s roads in 2021–2025
Collisions police recorded inside Exning’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Police recorded 4 collisions with injuries inside Exning in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 0 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 Exning is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Exning’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; Exning had 1.
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.
Crime in the places around Exning
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
Exning records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Newmarket records more. Burwell, 1.8 miles away, records 16.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Exning’s 28.
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 Exning 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 Exning
Is Exning safe?
Police recorded 28 violent and sexual offences and 15.1 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Exning’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 30% of UK towns. Among 1,764 UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000 people, Exning is 1,503rd from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Exning?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 24%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 27%, shoplifting and theft rose 43% and anti-social behaviour fell 18%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Exning?
Violence & sexual offences: 54 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (15) and vehicle crime (11), with 9 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Exning compare with Cambridge?
Cambridge records 35.3 violent and sexual offences and 16.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Exning’s 28 and 15.1, 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.