Safety in Fornham All Saints · police.uk, 2023–2026
Fornham All Saints goes ungraded: its recorded crime
Recorded violent and sexual offences ran at 17.1 per 1,000 residents a year, and burglary, vehicle crime and damage at 5.4. The crimes police recorded inside Fornham All Saints’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 are below; Fornham All Saints has no Safety Grade. This Suffolk town has fewer than 1,000 residents, and Safety is graded from 1,000: below that, a handful of incidents moves the rate a long way.
Violent crime
17.1
per 1,000 residents a year · graded
Homes & vehicles
5.4
burglary, vehicle crime, damage · graded
Shoplifting & theft
2.5
per 1,000 a year · not graded
Anti-social behaviour
5
reports per 1,000 a year · not graded
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
By type
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Violence & sexual offences17.5
Anti-social behaviour6.2
Burglary5
Vehicle crime2.5
Robbery1.2
Shoplifting0
Criminal damage & arson0
Public order0
Other theft0
Drugs0
Other crime0
Bicycle theft0
Possession of weapons0
Theft from the person0
Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Not gradedTypical town its size
Show as a table
Category
In the grade
Reports
Per 1,000
Typical
Violence & sexual offences
Violent
14
17.5
16.6
Anti-social behaviour
not graded
5
6.2
5.3
Burglary
Home & vehicle
4
5
1.6
Vehicle crime
Home & vehicle
2
2.5
1.5
Robbery
Violent
1
1.2
0
Shoplifting
not graded
0
0
0
Criminal damage & arson
Home & vehicle
0
0
3.2
Public order
not graded
0
0
2.4
Other theft
not graded
0
0
2.5
Drugs
not graded
0
0
0.6
Other crime
not graded
0
0
1.1
Bicycle theft
not graded
0
0
0
Possession of weapons
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.
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.
violent and sexual offences, 12 months to August 2026
6
homes & vehicles
0
shoplifting & theft
26
of the three, per 1,000
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 0 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Trend · monthly
15 violent and sexual offences in the last 12 months, against 17 the year before
Violent crime per 1,000 a year
Fornham All SaintsUK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people
Homes & vehicles per 1,000 a year
Fornham All SaintsUK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people
“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).
Neighbours
Crime in the places around Fornham All Saints
Bury St EdmundsGreat BartonThurstonBarrowIxworthKentfordRed LodgeFornham All Saints
Fornham All Saints records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Great Barton, 3.4 miles away, records 11.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Fornham All Saints’s 17.1.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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 Fornham All Saints sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
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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 Fornham All Saints
Is Fornham All Saints safe?
Police recorded 17.1 violent and sexual offences and 5.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Fornham All Saints’s built-up area).
Is crime going up in Fornham All Saints?
Police recorded 15 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 17 in the 12 months before. With numbers this small, a few crimes change the rate a lot.
What is the most common crime in Fornham All Saints?
Violence & sexual offences: 14 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came burglary (4) and vehicle crime (2), with 5 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Fornham All Saints compare with Bury St Edmunds?
Bury St Edmunds records 39.8 violent and sexual offences and 13.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Fornham All Saints’s 17.1 and 5.4, 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) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0