Photo: John Welford · CC BY-SA 2.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Nuneaton than in 89% of UK towns
Police recorded 2,447 cases of anti-social behaviour in Nuneaton in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 27.6 per 1,000 against a typical 17.5. The Safety Grade comes out at D, drawn from crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area through September 2023 to August 2026. Violence recorded locally climbed 5% in a year. Out of every 1,000 residents, 42.7 violent and sexual offences and 18.5 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 Nuneaton
One ward carries much of the rate
Abbey ward, where 46% of Nuneaton’s shoplifting and theft is recorded, recorded 2,815 of Nuneaton’s 11,350 violent and sexual offences in three years: 102.6 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Nuneaton the figure is 35.7. Where in Nuneaton ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 5% more violent crime per resident in Nuneaton than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 81 UK towns and cities of 62,000 to 120,000 people, Nuneaton has the 42nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Eastbourne, Kettering and Dartford, higher than Guildford, Derry City and Chelmsford. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
31% of Nuneaton’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 18% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Nuneaton’s D
A firm grade. Built on 16,284 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Nuneaton against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Lowest recorded crime in Whitestone, Hartshill and Weddington; highest in Abbey
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitestone | 6,589 | 11.7 | 10.7 | |
| Hartshill | 553 | 22.9 | 13.3 | |
| Weddington | 9,582 | 29.5 | 13.7 | |
| St Nicolas | 8,743 | 29.9 | 13.8 | |
| Arley and Whitacre | 1,251 | 33.8 | 12.5 | |
| Attleborough | 7,650 | 30.9 | 18 | |
| Galley Common | 8,406 | 37.9 | 14.5 | |
| Arbury | 4,865 | 38.4 | 20.7 | |
| Kingswood | 7,318 | 44.3 | 15.9 | |
| Camp Hill | 9,599 | 42.7 | 19 | |
| Wem Brook | 7,957 | 43.7 | 19.5 | |
| Bar Pool | 7,162 | 48.1 | 20.7 | |
| Abbey | 9,143 | 102.6 | 36.9 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 1,585 | 34% violent |
| Supermarkets | 1,543 | 53% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 649 | 40% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 399 | 41% violent |
| Hospitals | 333 | 43% violent |
| Bus and coach stations | 241 | 40% violent |
| Parks and open spaces | 155 | 50% violent |
| Nightclubs | 147 | 69% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 137 | 45% anti-social behaviour |
| College and university buildings | 20 | 60% shoplifting & theft |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Abbey records 2.9× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Nuneaton. 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 Nuneaton. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Nuneaton’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Crime in Nuneaton 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 19 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 15 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Nuneaton runs highest on anti-social behaviour (27.6 per 1,000 against 17.5), possession of weapons (1.6 per 1,000 against 1.1) and vehicle crime (6.8 per 1,000 against 4.9). Other theft and drugs sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 3,549 | 40 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 2,447 | 27.6 | 17.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 831 | 9.4 | 10.3 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 687 | 7.7 | 7.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 672 | 7.6 | 7.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 601 | 6.8 | 4.9 |
| Other theft | not graded | 420 | 4.7 | 6.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 360 | 4.1 | 3.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 210 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 196 | 2.2 | 3.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 145 | 1.6 | 1.4 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 138 | 1.6 | 1.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 57 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 57 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
“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 and cities of 50,000 or more.
31% of Nuneaton residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
18% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 31% 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.
Nuneaton’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.
Police in Nuneaton identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 64% of Nuneaton’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 10% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (67% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 11% of violent and 6% 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. 5,549 crimes.
How crime in Nuneaton has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +5% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles +2% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft -12% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour +15% (towns its size -2%).
Among 81 towns its size, Nuneaton ranks 42nd for the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangor Ards and North Down | 64,596 | 18.9 | 6.4 | 5.4 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 8 | Rugby Warwickshire | 78,130 | 32 | 12.1 | 11.9 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 39 | Guildford Surrey | 77,870 | 44.3 | 15.2 | 23.7 | D |
| 40 | Derry City Derry City and Strabane | 85,279 | 43.4 | 16.1 | 12.9 | D |
| 41 | Chelmsford Essex | 110,612 | 44.5 | 15.2 | 21 | D |
| 42 | Nuneaton Warwickshire | 88,818 | 42.7 | 18.5 | 15.9 | D |
| 43 | Rochester Kent | 67,279 | 44.7 | 16.8 | 17.3 | D |
| 44 | Worcester Worcestershire | 105,439 | 44.8 | 18.2 | 22 | D |
| 45 | Maidstone Kent | 109,503 | 46.4 | 17 | 20.1 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 81 | Doncaster South Yorkshire | 87,440 | 72.6 | 38.2 | 43.3 | 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 Nuneaton, and others in Warwickshire.
Six people died in collisions on Nuneaton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 474 collisions with injuries inside Nuneaton in five years, in which six people died (2 were pedestrians and 2 were cyclists). 92 people were killed or seriously injured: 33 on foot and 12 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more: at their median rate (1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Nuneaton’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Nuneaton’s own rate (1.4) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Nuneaton had 20.7 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 36% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
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 Nuneaton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Nuneaton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuneaton | 88,818 | 42.7 | 18.5 | D |
| Bermuda | 2,071 | 22.7 | 18.1 | C |
| Hartshill | 2,826 | 36.9 | 18.4 | C− |
| Bedworth | 31,083 | 38.8 | 18.1 | D |
| Ansley | 1,046 | 50 | 24.5 | D |
| Mancetter and Witherley | 2,689 | 29.3 | 12.6 | C |
| Bulkington | 5,670 | 21.2 | 15.2 | C+ |
| New Arley | 1,666 | 30.8 | 13.6 | C |
Nuneaton records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Ansley records more. Bermuda, 1.2 miles away, records 22.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Nuneaton’s 42.7.
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 333 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Nuneaton’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 Nuneaton 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 Nuneaton
Is Nuneaton safe?
Police recorded 42.7 violent and sexual offences and 18.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Nuneaton’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 11% of UK towns. Among 81 UK towns of 62,000 to 120,000 people, Nuneaton is 42nd from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Nuneaton?
By council ward, Whitestone, Hartshill and Weddington record the least violent and household crime per resident: 11.7, 22.9 and 29.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 102.6 in Abbey.
Is crime going up in Nuneaton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 5%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft fell 12% and anti-social behaviour rose 15%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Nuneaton town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 147 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 69% of them violent, and Abbey ward records 102.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in July and was lowest in November.
What is the most common crime in Nuneaton?
Violence & sexual offences: 3,549 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (831) and criminal damage & arson (687), with 2,447 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Nuneaton compare with Coventry?
Coventry records 47.6 violent and sexual offences and 23.7 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Nuneaton’s 42.7 and 18.5, 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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