Photo: Bobulous · CC BY-SA 4.0Ewell records vehicle crime at 3 times the rate of a typical town its size
The overall Safety Grade is C+ (#41 of 65 in Surrey), which means more crime per resident than 62% of UK towns, judged on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Violent crime was up 7% in a year. It has less violent crime than 51% of UK towns, but less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than only 16%. Out of every 1,000 residents, 22.4 violent and sexual offences and 16.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are reported annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Ewell
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% more violent crime per resident in Ewell than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 22% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 237 UK towns of 19,000 to 37,000 people, Ewell has the 75th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Great Malvern, Droitwich Spa and Horley, higher than Hythe and Dibden Purlieu, Camberley and Thornton. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Ewell’s C+
A firm grade. Built on 3,169 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Ewell against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Ewell runs highest on vehicle crime (8.3 per 1,000 against 2.8), shoplifting (13.8 per 1,000 against 6.1) and drugs (3.1 per 1,000 against 1.9). Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 628 | 22.8 | 30.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 379 | 13.8 | 6.1 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 374 | 13.6 | 12.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 228 | 8.3 | 2.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 161 | 5.9 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 160 | 5.8 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 128 | 4.7 | 4.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 101 | 3.7 | 2.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 86 | 3.1 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 46 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 23 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 17 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 14 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 5 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
“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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
How Ewell’s neighbourhoods rank in England
35% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 6% 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.
Ewell’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.
Set against 237 towns its size, Ewell is 75th
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 7 | Great Bookham and Fetcham Surrey | 21,655 | 15.3 | 7.5 | 5.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | New Haw, West Byfleet and Sheerwater Surrey | 33,035 | 18.5 | 9.5 | 8.1 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 26 | Reigate Surrey | 23,774 | 20 | 9.8 | 11.9 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 30 | Farnham Surrey | 20,499 | 21.8 | 9.9 | 13 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 72 | Hythe and Dibden Purlieu Hampshire | 19,857 | 27.6 | 10.4 | 8.8 | C+ |
| 73 | Camberley Surrey | 36,787 | 27.7 | 10.8 | 14.7 | C+ |
| 74 | Thornton Lancashire | 19,263 | 27.6 | 10.9 | 7.1 | C+ |
| 75 | Ewell Surrey | 27,509 | 22.4 | 16.2 | 13.7 | C+ |
| 76 | Abingdon-on-Thames Oxfordshire | 33,179 | 30 | 9.1 | 10.6 | C+ |
| 77 | Didcot Oxfordshire | 34,600 | 30.6 | 8.5 | 11.8 | C+ |
| 78 | Larkfield Kent | 26,147 | 25.2 | 13.9 | 9.5 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 237 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | 28,979 | 105 | 32.9 | 33.7 | 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 Ewell, and others in Surrey.
Police in Ewell identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 75% of Ewell’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 19% 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 5% of violent and 3% 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. 986 crimes.
How crime in Ewell has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-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 +7% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +22% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +93% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +5% (towns its size -4%).
Lowest recorded crime in Nonsuch, Chessington South & Malden Rushett and Ewell Court; highest in Ruxley
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonsuch | 5,760 | 11.9 | 11.2 | |
| Chessington South & Malden Rushett | 572 | 12.2 | 11.7 | |
| Ewell Court | 4,481 | 15.4 | 15.9 | |
| West Ewell | 5,924 | 18.6 | 13.3 | |
| Ewell | 5,018 | 27.6 | 18.3 | |
| Ruxley | 5,754 | 36.8 | 20.4 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 650 | 60% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 220 | 69% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 148 | 28% anti-social behaviour |
| College and university buildings | 90 | 43% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Ruxley records 2× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Ewell. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Ewell. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Ewell’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Crime in Ewell 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 18 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 19 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 Ewell’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 225 collisions with injuries inside Ewell in five years. 58 people were killed or seriously injured: 9 on foot and 18 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Ewell’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Ewell’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Ewell had 42.2 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8). 16% of them were on foot, against 30% across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
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 Ewell’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Ewell
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ewell | 27,509 | 22.4 | 16.2 | C+ |
| Worcester Park and Stoneleigh | 15,851 | 13.1 | 9.6 | A− |
| Epsom | 35,857 | 34.7 | 17.2 | C− |
| Kingston upon Thames | 166,333 | 24.7 | 14 | C+ |
| Banstead | 8,929 | 21.3 | 12.5 | B− |
| Langley Vale | 1,515 | 13.9 | 5.7 | A− |
| Sutton | 208,858 | 27.1 | 14.6 | C |
| Tadworth and Epsom Downs | 27,095 | 22.9 | 13.1 | C+ |
Ewell records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Worcester Park and Stoneleigh, 1 miles away, records 13.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Ewell’s 22.4.
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 Ewell 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 Ewell
Is Ewell safe?
Police recorded 22.4 violent and sexual offences and 16.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Ewell’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 38% of UK towns. Among 237 UK towns of 19,000 to 37,000 people, Ewell is 75th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Ewell?
By council ward, Nonsuch, Chessington South & Malden Rushett and Ewell Court record the least violent and household crime per resident: 11.9, 12.2 and 15.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 36.8 in Ruxley.
Is crime going up in Ewell?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 22%, shoplifting and theft rose 93% and anti-social behaviour rose 5%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Ewell?
Violence & sexual offences: 628 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (379) and vehicle crime (228), with 374 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Ewell compare with Merton?
Merton records 24.2 violent and sexual offences and 14.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Ewell’s 22.4 and 16.2, 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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