Photo: Stefan Czapski · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Staines-upon-Thames records more crime than nine in ten UK towns
Typical years here bring 49.9 violent and sexual offences plus 19.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents. Recorded violence fell 11% in a year. That puts it at D for safety, judged on crimes police recorded inside Staines-upon-Thames’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. The typical town its size sees 0.3 cases of theft from the person per 1,000 residents; Staines-upon-Thames sees 1.6, or 35 in the 12 months to August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Staines-upon-Thames
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 11% less violent crime per resident in Staines-upon-Thames 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 20% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 268 UK towns of 15,000 to 29,000 people, Staines-upon-Thames has the 238th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Truro, Cradley Heath and Chafford Hundred and West Thurrock, higher than Camborne, Darwen and Brownhills. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Staines-upon-Thames: D for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 4,407 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Staines-upon-Thames 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, Staines-upon-Thames runs highest on theft from the person (1.6 per 1,000 against 0.3), drugs (9.8 per 1,000 against 1.9) and possession of weapons (3.2 per 1,000 against 0.7).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 890 | 41.7 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 475 | 22.3 | 12.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 370 | 17.3 | 5.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 301 | 14.1 | 6.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 208 | 9.8 | 1.9 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 204 | 9.6 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 183 | 8.6 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 76 | 3.6 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 70 | 3.3 | 1.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 69 | 3.2 | 0.7 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 59 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 35 | 1.6 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 32 | 1.5 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 24 | 1.1 | 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.
Staines-upon-Thames is 238th of 268 UK towns of 15,000 to 29,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Streetly West Midlands | 16,790 | 11.2 | 9 | 5.3 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 7 | Worcester Park and Stoneleigh Surrey | 15,851 | 13.1 | 9.6 | 4.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 9 | Great Bookham and Fetcham Surrey | 21,655 | 15.3 | 7.5 | 5.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 32 | Reigate Surrey | 23,774 | 20 | 9.8 | 11.9 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 37 | Cobham Surrey | 17,505 | 19.5 | 11.3 | 10.1 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 235 | Camborne Cornwall | 20,445 | 50 | 17.1 | 11.3 | D |
| 236 | Darwen Lancashire | 27,897 | 48 | 19.3 | 10.3 | D |
| 237 | Brownhills West Midlands | 21,238 | 44.3 | 24.7 | 20.8 | D |
| 238 | Staines-upon-Thames Surrey | 21,327 | 49.9 | 19.5 | 28.5 | D |
| 239 | Littlehampton West Sussex | 19,060 | 49.9 | 19.9 | 23.1 | D |
| 240 | Colne Lancashire | 18,914 | 49.5 | 21.2 | 16.5 | D |
| 241 | Fleetwood Lancashire | 26,224 | 54.4 | 17.8 | 15.9 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 268 | 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 Staines-upon-Thames, and others in Surrey.
Crime in Staines-upon-Thames 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 16 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 25 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Staines-upon-Thames 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 -11% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -20% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -13% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -11% (towns its size -4%).
How Staines-upon-Thames’s neighbourhoods rank in England
10% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 15% 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.
Staines-upon-Thames’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.
Lowest recorded crime in Riverside and Laleham, Staines South and Thorpe; highest in Staines
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside and Laleham | 5,147 | 16.3 | 8.5 | |
| Staines South | 5,923 | 27.7 | 11.5 | |
| Thorpe | 1,457 | 77.3 | 17.2 | |
| Staines | 8,513 | 80.5 | 31 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 978 | 27% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 840 | 55% shoplifting & theft |
| Parks and open spaces | 152 | 62% drugs, public order & other |
| Supermarkets | 104 | 49% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 85 | 26% shoplifting & theft |
| Bus and coach stations | 51 | 33% anti-social behaviour |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Staines records 2.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Staines-upon-Thames. 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 Staines-upon-Thames. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Staines-upon-Thames’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 66% of Staines-upon-Thames’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 14% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (60% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 12% of violent and 7% 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. 1,540 crimes.
One person died in collisions on Staines-upon-Thames’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 283 collisions with injuries inside Staines-upon-Thames in five years, in which one person died (1 was a pedestrian). 64 people were killed or seriously injured: 8 on foot and 17 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 Staines-upon-Thames’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Staines-upon-Thames’s own rate (0.9) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Staines-upon-Thames had 60.0 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). 13% 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 Staines-upon-Thames’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Staines-upon-Thames
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staines-upon-Thames | 21,327 | 49.9 | 19.5 | D |
| Laleham | 2,521 | 16.9 | 11.5 | B |
| Ashford | 22,823 | 31.5 | 15.4 | C |
| Stanwell | 11,728 | 39.8 | 19.6 | D |
| Thorpe | 1,226 | 20.4 | 18.2 | C+ |
| Stanwell Moor | 1,431 | 28.2 | 23.3 | C− |
| Egham | 28,003 | 28.5 | 11.7 | C+ |
| Shepperton Green | 4,358 | 19.8 | 7.8 | B |
Staines-upon-Thames records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Laleham, 0.9 miles away, records 16.9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Staines-upon-Thames’s 49.9.
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 Staines-upon-Thames 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 Staines-upon-Thames
Is Staines-upon-Thames safe?
Police recorded 49.9 violent and sexual offences and 19.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Staines-upon-Thames’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 7% of UK towns. Among 268 UK towns of 15,000 to 29,000 people, Staines-upon-Thames is 238th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Staines-upon-Thames?
By council ward, Riverside and Laleham, Staines South and Thorpe record the least violent and household crime per resident: 16.3, 27.7 and 77.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 80.5 in Staines.
Is crime going up in Staines-upon-Thames?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 11%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 20%, shoplifting and theft fell 13% and anti-social behaviour fell 11%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Staines-upon-Thames?
Violence & sexual offences: 890 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (370) and shoplifting (301), with 475 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Staines-upon-Thames compare with Egham?
Egham records 28.5 violent and sexual offences and 11.7 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Staines-upon-Thames’s 49.9 and 19.5, 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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