Photo: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Red Lodge records more violent crime than 71% of UK towns
From September 2023 to August 2026, crimes police recorded inside Red Lodge’s built-up area put it at C for safety: #21 of 34 in Suffolk. Even so, violent crime was down 11% in a year. Year on year, 31.8 violent and sexual offences and 9.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur 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 Red Lodge
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 11% less violent crime per resident in Red Lodge 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 7% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 628 UK towns of 4,000 to 8,000 people, Red Lodge has the 424th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Bagshot, Hunstanton and Leiston, higher than Crewkerne, Holt and Ballynahinch. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C for Red Lodge
A fairly firm grade. Built on 708 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Red Lodge against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Police in Red Lodge identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 50% of Red Lodge’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” (66% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 9% of violent and 5% 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. 231 crimes.
How Red Lodge’s neighbourhoods rank in England
31% 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.
Red Lodge’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Red Lodge runs highest on criminal damage & arson (6.1 per 1,000 against 4.5), violence & sexual offences (27.9 per 1,000 against 22.4) and vehicle crime (2.4 per 1,000 against 2). Anti-social behaviour and public order sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 161 | 27.9 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 39 | 6.8 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 35 | 6.1 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 17 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 14 | 2.4 | 2 |
| Public order | not graded | 12 | 2.1 | 3.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 8 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 7 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 6 | 1 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 3 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 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 crime in Red Lodge 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 -11% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -7% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -16% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +39% (towns its size +0%).
Of 628 towns its size, Red Lodge is 424th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| 2 | Little Eriswell Suffolk | 4,120 | 8.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 191 | Lakenheath Suffolk | 4,567 | 19 | 8.9 | 4.1 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 218 | Elmswell Suffolk | 4,446 | 23.7 | 5.3 | 4.4 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 238 | Needham Market Suffolk | 5,055 | 20.6 | 9.3 | 7.1 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 421 | Crewkerne Somerset | 7,067 | 32.7 | 8.2 | 12.7 | C |
| 422 | Holt Norfolk | 4,014 | 29.2 | 11.7 | 8.6 | C |
| 423 | Ballynahinch Newry, Mourne and Down | 6,164 | 28.5 | 12.4 | 6.2 | C |
| 424 | Red Lodge Suffolk | 5,771 | 31.8 | 9.1 | 3.5 | C |
| 425 | Long Sutton Lincolnshire | 5,377 | 29.8 | 11.1 | 7.9 | C |
| 426 | Tenterden Kent | 7,775 | 28.5 | 12.4 | 11.5 | C |
| 427 | Crowland Lincolnshire | 4,619 | 30.5 | 10.6 | 6.5 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 628 | 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 Red Lodge, and others in Suffolk.
Crime in Red Lodge 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 10 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 Red Lodge’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 7 collisions with injuries inside Red Lodge in five years. 2 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Red Lodge is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Red Lodge’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 5 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Red Lodge had 2.
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 Red Lodge’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Red Lodge
Red Lodge records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Mildenhall and Newmarket record more. Kentford, 2.3 miles away, records 21.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Red Lodge’s 31.8.
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 Red Lodge 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 Red Lodge
Is Red Lodge safe?
Police recorded 31.8 violent and sexual offences and 9.1 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Red Lodge’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 33% of UK towns. Among 628 UK towns of 4,000 to 8,000 people, Red Lodge is 424th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Red Lodge?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 11%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 7%, shoplifting and theft fell 16% and anti-social behaviour rose 39%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Red Lodge?
Violence & sexual offences: 161 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (35) and other theft (17), with 39 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Red Lodge 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 Red Lodge’s 31.8 and 9.1, 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.
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