Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0Redhill has more violent crime per resident than 85% of UK towns
Drugs stands out: 4.3 per 1,000 residents in Redhill, against 1.9 in a typical town its size, with 140 recorded in the 12 months to August 2026. Overall, it grades C− for safety (#58 of 65 in Surrey). Add to that, recorded violence rose 5% in a year. Year on year, 40.6 violent and sexual offences and 13.4 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 Redhill
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 5% more violent crime per resident in Redhill 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 fell 7% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 196 UK towns of 23,000 to 44,000 people, Redhill has the 130th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Coseley, Newry and Chester-le-Street, higher than Bury St Edmunds, Swadlincote and Gorleston-on-Sea. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Redhill’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 5,211 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Redhill 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, Redhill runs highest on drugs (4.3 per 1,000 against 1.9), robbery (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.5) and public order (10 per 1,000 against 5.4). Burglary sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,272 | 39.1 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 417 | 12.8 | 12.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 325 | 10 | 5.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 266 | 8.2 | 6.1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 223 | 6.9 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 218 | 6.7 | 4.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 140 | 4.3 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 123 | 3.8 | 2.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 64 | 2 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 61 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 39 | 1.2 | 0.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 34 | 1 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 22 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 22 | 0.7 | 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 Redhill’s neighbourhoods rank in England
19% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 4% 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.
Redhill’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.
Crime in Redhill 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 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 16 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
130th of 196: Redhill among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
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| 14 | New Haw, West Byfleet and Sheerwater Surrey | 33,035 | 18.5 | 9.5 | 8.1 | B |
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| 18 | Reigate Surrey | 23,774 | 20 | 9.8 | 11.9 | B |
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| 30 | Ash and Ash Vale Surrey | 24,284 | 21.7 | 11.9 | 6.1 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 37 | Tadworth and Epsom Downs Surrey | 27,095 | 22.9 | 13.1 | 5.7 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 127 | Bury St Edmunds Suffolk | 41,279 | 39.8 | 13.3 | 19 | C− |
| 128 | Swadlincote Derbyshire | 34,569 | 40.6 | 12.7 | 14.7 | C− |
| 129 | Gorleston-on-Sea Norfolk | 24,474 | 39.2 | 14.2 | 12.5 | C− |
| 130 | Redhill Surrey | 32,516 | 40.6 | 13.4 | 15.9 | C− |
| 131 | Newton-le-Willows Merseyside | 24,651 | 40.6 | 13.5 | 12.4 | C− |
| 132 | Herne Bay Kent | 24,873 | 40.1 | 15 | 19.8 | C− |
| 133 | Pudsey West Yorkshire | 34,853 | 34.8 | 20.3 | 21.2 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 196 | 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 Redhill, and others in Surrey.
How crime in Redhill 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 +5% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -7% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +7% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +12% (towns its size -4%).
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 66% of Redhill’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 12% 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 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. 1,739 crimes.
Lowest recorded crime in Horley East & Salfords, Meadvale & St John's and South Park & Woodhatch; highest in Earlswood & Whitebushes
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horley East & Salfords | 600 | 6.7 | 2.8 | |
| Meadvale & St John's | 4,332 | 13.9 | 6 | |
| South Park & Woodhatch | 1,143 | 33 | 5 | |
| Redhill East | 7,385 | 42.4 | 16.7 | |
| Redhill West & Wray Common | 8,937 | 46.2 | 13.7 | |
| Earlswood & Whitebushes | 10,119 | 47.4 | 14.5 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Bus and coach stations | 973 | 30% violent |
| Hospitals | 690 | 61% violent |
| Car parks | 627 | 31% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 431 | 45% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 198 | 37% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 99 | 59% violent |
| Supermarkets | 66 | 41% shoplifting & theft |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live. 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 Redhill. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Redhill’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Redhill’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 227 collisions with injuries inside Redhill in five years. 57 people were killed or seriously injured: 15 on foot and 6 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 Redhill’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Redhill’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Redhill had 35.1 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). 26% 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 Redhill’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Redhill
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redhill | 32,516 | 40.6 | 13.4 | C− |
| Reigate | 23,774 | 20 | 9.8 | B |
| South Nutfield | 1,951 | 7.2 | 8.7 | A |
| South Merstham | 9,953 | 32.4 | 16.1 | C− |
| Salfords | 1,873 | 61.6 | 25.3 | D− |
| Lower Kingswood | 2,029 | 16.8 | 7.7 | B+ |
| Bletchingley | 2,372 | 24 | 13.6 | C+ |
| Horley | 27,067 | 28.5 | 10.8 | C+ |
Redhill records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Salfords records more. Reigate, 1.3 miles away, records 20 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Redhill’s 40.6.
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 690 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Redhill’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 Redhill 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 Redhill
Is Redhill safe?
Police recorded 40.6 violent and sexual offences and 13.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Redhill’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 17% of UK towns. Among 196 UK towns of 23,000 to 44,000 people, Redhill is 130th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Redhill?
By council ward, Horley East & Salfords, Meadvale & St John's and South Park & Woodhatch record the least violent and household crime per resident: 6.7, 13.9 and 33 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 47.4 in Earlswood & Whitebushes.
Is crime going up in Redhill?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 5%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 7%, shoplifting and theft rose 7% and anti-social behaviour rose 12%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Redhill?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,272 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (325) and shoplifting (266), with 417 reports of anti-social behaviour.
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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