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DSafety Grade
Safety in Coleshill · police.uk, 2023–2026

Coleshill records robbery at 8.2 times the rate of a typical town its size

Recorded violence held steady in a year. Set against the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, it has less crime per resident than 10% of them. Each year brought 27.4 violent and sexual offences and 31.0 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 1,000 residents.

Violent crime
27.4
per 1,000 residents a year · graded
Homes & vehicles
31
burglary, vehicle crime, damage · graded
Shoplifting & theft
9.8
per 1,000 a year · not graded
Anti-social behaviour
18.1
reports per 1,000 a year · not graded

Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.

What stands out · In brief

What stands out about safety in Coleshill

More crime than many places its size

Of 481 UK towns of 5,000 to 9,000 people, Coleshill has the 420th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Launceston, Boldon Colliery and Ushaw Moor and Bearpark, higher than St Ives, Havercroft and Ryhill and Alnwick. Towns its size ↓

Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally

The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 23% of Coleshill’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓

Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.

Safety Grade

The grade: D for Coleshill

Compared with UK towns its sizeLess crime per resident than 10% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: more crime than most for its size. Context only, not part of the grade.
Violent and sexual offences (27.4 per 1,000 a year, 3-year average)Less crime than 38% of UK towns
Homes and vehicles (31 per 1,000 a year, 3-year average)Less crime than 1% of UK towns
DC−

A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,170 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Coleshill against every UK town of 1,000 or more.

Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.

By type

What police recorded in the last 12 months

Violence & sexual offences22.2
Anti-social behaviour20.2
Criminal damage & arson13
Vehicle crime12.8
Other theft7.9
Burglary5
Public order4
Drugs2.1
Shoplifting1.6
Other crime1.6
Robbery1.6
Possession of weapons1.5
Theft from the person0.4
Bicycle theft0.3
Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Not gradedTypical town its size

Against the typical town its size, Coleshill runs highest on robbery (1.6 per 1,000 against 0.2), vehicle crime (12.8 per 1,000 against 2) and possession of weapons (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.4).

Show as a table
CategoryIn the gradeReportsPer 1,000Typical
Violence & sexual offencesViolent15022.222.4
Anti-social behaviournot graded13620.28.8
Criminal damage & arsonHome & vehicle88134.5
Vehicle crimeHome & vehicle8612.82
Other theftnot graded537.93.2
BurglaryHome & vehicle3451.9
Public ordernot graded2743.6
Drugsnot graded142.11
Shopliftingnot graded111.61.8
Other crimenot graded111.61.5
RobberyViolent111.60.2
Possession of weaponsViolent101.50.4
Theft from the personnot graded30.40
Bicycle theftnot graded20.30.1

“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.

Neighbourhoods · England-wide rank

1 in 4 Coleshill residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods

0%1
0%2
0%3
27%4
0%5
0%6
28%7
0%8
23%9
23%10
Higher crimeLower crime

46% 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.

Coleshill’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 happened next

Police in Coleshill identify a suspect less often than across UK towns

Violent crime
Coleshill
All UK towns
Homes & vehicles
Coleshill
All UK towns
Went to courtSuspect identified, unable to prosecuteNo suspect identifiedCaution, local resolution, otherStill open

No suspect was identified for 84% of Coleshill’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 17% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (73% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 2% of violent and 2% 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. 404 crimes.

Towns its size

Of 481 towns its size, Coleshill is 420th from the least graded crime

#TownPeopleViolentHomes & vehiclesShops & theftSafety
1Merley Dorset5,4898.42.83.8A+
…
51Whitnash Warwickshire8,91415.37.13A−
…
93Cawston Warwickshire6,47519.46.33.1B+
…
126Wellesbourne Warwickshire7,015217.17B
…
201Southam Warwickshire8,10322.9107.2B−
…
417St Ives Cornwall5,41344.313.813.2D
418Havercroft and Ryhill West Yorkshire5,20443.814.44.4D
419Alnwick Northumberland8,43242.415.715.9D
420Coleshill Warwickshire6,74427.4319.8D
421Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Northumberland5,95136.821.718.4D
422Portrush Causeway Coast and Glens6,15036.92214.5D
423Atherstone Warwickshire8,6664117.911.6D
…
481City of London London7,820252.8111.5710D−

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 Coleshill, and others in Warwickshire.

1,000 residents · one year

Crime in Coleshill per 1,000 residents

Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Shoplifting & theft (not graded)
171
violent and sexual offences, 12 months to August 2026
208
homes & vehicles
69
shoplifting & theft
66
of the three, per 1,000

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 31 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 10 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.

Trend · monthly

How crime in Coleshill 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 -2% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -2% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +3% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -2% (towns its size +0%).

Where in Coleshill

Where in Coleshill police recorded crime

Public places police.uk named crimes and ASB, 3 years
At or nearReportsMostly
Car parks12446% homes & vehicles
Supermarkets7139% shoplifting & theft
Shopping areas4245% homes & vehicles

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 Coleshill. We show only these, never streets or homes.

Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.

On the roads

Two people died in collisions on Coleshill’s roads in 2021–2025

Police recorded 44 collisions with injuries inside Coleshill in five years, in which two people died (1 was a pedestrian). 16 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.

Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Coleshill’s two people are context, not a ranking.

Counting serious injuries too, Coleshill had 47.5 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (16.7).

2
people killed, 2021–2025
16
killed or seriously injured
3
of them on foot
1
of them on a bicycle

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 Coleshill’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.

Neighbours

Crime in the places around Coleshill

ABCD
TownPeopleViolentHomes & vehiclesSafety
Coleshill6,74427.431D
Water Orton3,48419.515.5C+
Curdworth1,14617.521.2C+
Kingsbury3,55517.612.5B
Meriden2,20327.828.1C−
Hampton in Arden1,86716.818.3C+
Hurley1,42026.513.2C+
New Arley1,66630.813.6C

Coleshill records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Water Orton, 1.6 miles away, records 19.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Coleshill’s 27.4.

Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 Coleshill 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 Coleshill

Is Coleshill safe?

Police recorded 27.4 violent and sexual offences and 31 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Coleshill’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 13% of UK towns. Among 481 UK towns of 5,000 to 9,000 people, Coleshill is 420th from the least crime. 23% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.

Is crime going up in Coleshill?

In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.

What is the most common crime in Coleshill?

Violence & sexual offences: 150 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (88) and vehicle crime (86), with 136 reports of anti-social behaviour.

How does Coleshill compare with Birmingham?

Birmingham records 62.8 violent and sexual offences and 28.5 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Coleshill’s 27.4 and 31, 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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