Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Recorded crime in Hookwood, without a grade
Violent crime was up 14% in a year. The yearly rates were 1,259.3 violent and sexual offences and 258.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents. This page shows what police recorded inside Hookwood’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026; it carries no Safety Grade. The town has fewer than 1,000 residents, and Safety is graded only from 1,000, where a handful of incidents no longer moves the rate a long way.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hookwood
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 14% more violent crime per resident in Hookwood than in the year before; across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Hookwood runs highest on other theft (507.5 per 1,000 against 2.5), drugs (64.6 per 1,000 against 0.6) and public order (211.7 per 1,000 against 2.4).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 547 | 821.3 | 0 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 346 | 519.5 | 0 |
| Other theft | not graded | 338 | 507.5 | 2.5 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 289 | 433.9 | 16.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 266 | 399.4 | 5.3 |
| Public order | not graded | 141 | 211.7 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 85 | 127.6 | 1.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 57 | 85.6 | 0 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 54 | 81.1 | 3.2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 43 | 64.6 | 0.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 34 | 51.1 | 1.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 5 | 7.5 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 3 | 4.5 | 0 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 2 | 3 | 1.6 |
“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.
How crime in Hookwood has moved
“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). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +14% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles -2% (towns its size +0%), shoplifting and theft -8% (towns its size +4%), anti-social behaviour +9% (towns its size -1%).
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 67% of Hookwood’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” (19% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 8% 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. 1,121 crimes.
Where in Hookwood police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 2,589 | 40% violent |
| Shopping areas | 1,570 | 53% violent |
| Conference and exhibition centres | 647 | 54% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 152 | 40% shoplifting & theft |
| Airports and airfields | 107 | 50% shoplifting & theft |
| Police stations | 76 | 38% violent |
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 Hookwood. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Crime in the places around Hookwood
Hookwood records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Horley, 1.1 miles away, records 28.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hookwood’s 1,259.3.
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
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 107 at an airport or airfield over three years. They count in Hookwood’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- 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 Hookwood 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 Hookwood
Is Hookwood safe?
Police recorded 1,259.3 violent and sexual offences and 258.1 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hookwood’s built-up area).
Is crime going up in Hookwood?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 14%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft fell 8% and anti-social behaviour rose 9%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Hookwood?
Possession of weapons: 547 in the 12 months to August 2026. Next came shoplifting (346) and other theft (338), with 266 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hookwood compare with Crawley?
Crawley records 42.7 violent and sexual offences and 15 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Hookwood’s 1,259.3 and 258.1, 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) · 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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