Photo: A J Paxton · CC BY-SA 2.0How Warwickshire stacks up
In Warwickshire, the trade-off is clear: well-off households and low crime (violent crime 19% below the England and Wales figure) on one side, car dependence and high costs against local pay on the other. Across every subject, Warwickshire lands 14th (A−). Cawston and Keresley Newlands rank near the top in the UK for growth; Royal Leamington Spa and Bedworth sit near the bottom.
Each subject puts the official figure for the whole county beside a measure built from our town grades. How this works
Safety
17th of 65A−75/100 Consistently safe. Police recorded 30.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents over the past year, 19% below the England and Wales figure (20th lowest of 65 areas with police.uk figures). Nearly every town does well here, Harbury and Binley Woods among them.
All recorded crime (anti-social behaviour left out): 67 per 1,000 residents a year, 23rd lowest.
Source: police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026 (each crime placed by its LSOA); Census 2021 residents. Greater Manchester Police publishes none.
Measure: recorded crime against residents (violence, burglary, vehicle crime, criminal damage), as in our Safety grades. The top quarter is the best-placed towns holding a quarter of the people in the UK’s 2,138 graded towns. 34 Warwickshire towns.
Hardly any high-crime towns
Whitnash leads its towns at #224 of 2,138, with Cubbington and Bishop's Itchington close behind. By population, 43% of its town residents are in top-quarter towns and 1% in bottom-quarter ones.
| County | Safest quarter | Most-crime quarter | Split |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ards and North Down | 100% | 0% | |
| Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 100% | 0% | |
| Lisburn and Castlereagh | 100% | 0% | |
| Mid Ulster | 100% | 0% | |
| Antrim and Newtownabbey | 78% | 0% | |
| Warwickshire | 43% | 1% |
What the two figures count
Each crime on police.uk is pinned to a nearby street or public place, not an address; both figures count crimes where those points fall. The county-wide rate takes in town centres, stations and shopping streets, where many offences are recorded but few people live. Our town grades leave shop theft and other town-centre crime out and count violence, burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage, the crimes that reach people at home.
Schools
31st of 90B+66/100 Somewhat above-average schools. 62% of pupils reach the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school, against 64% across England (23rd lowest). Secondary schools pull ahead of primaries here: 23rd lowest at eleven, but 8th highest at GCSE. No neighbour beats it on schools; Oxfordshire comes closest.
At GCSE, pupils average 48.4 on Attainment 8 (8th highest); the grade counts it as much as the primary results.
Source: DfE key stage 2 results 2024/25 and key stage 4 (Attainment 8), every state school in the county, pupil-weighted. England only.
Measure: our Schools grade: primary and secondary results of the schools in and around each town. The top quarter is the best-placed towns holding a quarter of the people in the UK’s 2,331 graded towns. 34 Warwickshire towns.
Cost of living
70th of 98C29/100 Harder to afford than most areas. Land Registry sales put the typical home at £305,000, or 5.4 years of average household income, against 5.2 across England and Wales. Its towns mostly sit mid-table; Rugby ranks highest, at #812.
Typical sale price: £305,000 (7,118 sales, 21st highest).
Private rent £1,084 a month (26th highest); Band D council tax £2,488 (20th highest). Shown for context.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales September 2025 to August 2026; ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023); ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026); council Band D 2026/27.
Measure: our Cost of living grade: prices and rents against local income, plus council tax. The top quarter is the best-placed towns holding a quarter of the people in the UK’s 2,515 graded towns. 34 Warwickshire towns.
Health
20th of 98A−80/100 Healthy, town after town. Of a life expectancy of 81.5 years, 67.2 are expected in good health (13th longest among the areas). Town by town it lands near the middle, with Dunchurch its best at #147 of 2,515.
Total life expectancy is 81.5 years (20th longest).
Source: ONS life expectancy and healthy life expectancy by small area (MSOA), 2019 to 2023, men and women averaged.
Measure: our Health grade: ONS life and healthy life expectancy, Census health, and OHID indicators in England. The top quarter is the best-placed towns holding a quarter of the people in the UK’s 2,515 graded towns. 34 Warwickshire towns.
Jobs & income
24th of 98A−76/100 Well off, town after town. At £56,500 a year, household incomes here are the 19th highest of 98 areas. Incomes and work tell different stories: 19th highest household income, but the 43rd lowest share claiming out-of-work benefits (3.0%). Its towns mostly sit mid-table; Kenilworth ranks highest, at #81.
Out-of-work claimants in August 2026: 3.0% of working-age adults (43rd lowest), weighed with income in the grade.
Source: ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023), household-weighted; DWP claimant count (August 2026) by council.
Measure: our Jobs & income grade: household income. The top quarter is the best-placed towns holding a quarter of the people in the UK’s 2,156 graded towns. 34 Warwickshire towns.
Getting about
76th of 98C−23/100 More car-dependent than most areas. At the 2021 Census, 16% of people travelling to work went on foot, by bike or by public transport, 9 points below the England and Wales figure. One town stands apart: Stratford-upon-Avon, #198 in the UK, while nearly every other town sits lower.
Worked mainly from home at the 2021 Census: 34% of workers (context; they are left out of the commuting share).
Source: ONS Census 2021, method of travel to work (TS061) by council; people working mainly from home left out.
Measure: our Walkability grade: how many everyday places are within reach on foot. The top quarter is the best-placed towns holding a quarter of the people in the UK’s 2,515 graded towns. 34 Warwickshire towns.
Flood risk
48th of 87B−45/100 Typical flood risk. About one in 100 homes in its towns face a real risk of flooding from rivers or the sea (22nd lowest). Its towns mostly sit mid-table; Bulkington ranks highest, at #244.
Source: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales flood-risk maps (rivers and the sea), homes in every town of the county.
Measure: our Hazard risk grade: the share of homes at high or medium flood risk. The top quarter is the best-placed towns holding a quarter of the people in the UK’s 2,452 graded towns. 34 Warwickshire towns.
Growth
9th of 98A92/100 Growing overall, unusually split. ONS estimates put 632,207 people here in 2024, +15.7% on 2011 (7th fastest). 57% of town residents live in top-quarter towns like Cawston and Keresley Newlands, and 29% in bottom-quarter places such as Royal Leamington Spa and Bedworth.
Since the 2021 Census: +5.5%, 4th fastest.
Source: ONS mid-year population estimates, 2011 and 2024.
Measure: population change from 2011 to 2024 (ONS estimates for built-up areas). The top quarter is the best-placed towns holding a quarter of the people in the UK’s 1,579 graded towns. 21 Warwickshire towns. Covers 88% of residents of Warwickshire’s graded towns.
How Warwickshire compares to its neighbours
Against the West Midlands, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Worcestershire, Warwickshire leads on schools.
| Warwickshire | West Midlands | Leicestershire | Oxfordshire | Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | A− 8014th of 65 | C− 1953rd of 65 | B+ 6921st of 65 | A 917th of 65 | B− 4536th of 65 |
| Safety | A− 7520th official · 43% in top towns | D 563rd official · 10% in top towns | B 6129th official · 30% in top towns | A− 8115th official · 58% in top towns | B− 4530th official · 23% in top towns |
| Schools | B+ 6625th official · 15% in top towns | B 5612th official · 8% in top towns | B 5718th official · 8% in top towns | B 6417th official · 13% in top towns | C+ 3823rd official · 5% in top towns |
| Cost of living | C 2972nd official · 18% in top towns | C 3058th official · 4% in top towns | C+ 3963rd official · 42% in top towns | C− 1887th official · 12% in top towns | C− 2261st official · 0% in top towns |
| Health | A− 8013th official · 37% in top towns | D 1353rd official · 9% in top towns | B+ 6533rd official · 35% in top towns | A+ 973rd official · 88% in top towns | B 5625th official · 16% in top towns |
| Jobs & income | A− 7619th official · 31% in top towns | C 2755th official · 9% in top towns | B 6035th official · 25% in top towns | A+ 986th official · 87% in top towns | B 5627th official · 13% in top towns |
| Getting about | C− 2373rd official · 0% in top towns | B 6021st official · 0% in top towns | B− 5141st official · 0% in top towns | A 949th official · 37% in top towns | C− 2471st official · 0% in top towns |
| Flood risk | B− 4522nd official · 14% in top towns | A− 768th official · 25% in top towns | B− 5233rd official · 26% in top towns | C 2937th official · 16% in top towns | A 902nd official · 47% in top towns |
| Growth | A 927th official · 57% in top towns | B+ 7023rd official · 21% in top towns | A 938th official · 65% in top towns | A 905th official · 40% in top towns | A+ 983rd official · 82% in top towns |
Each cell: the subject’s grade and score, the county’s rank on the official figure (1st = the better end), and the share of its town residents living in a top-quarter town for the UK. Neighbour names open their report cards.
How this report card works
Two measures, side by side. The left card is an official figure for the whole county, its towns, villages and countryside together, built from the small areas and councils that make it up and ranked against the other counties. The right card is built from our town grades: of everyone living in the county’s graded towns of 2,500 or more, the share whose town is in the top quarter for the UK. Quarters are of people, not towns: the top quarter is the best-placed towns that together hold a quarter of everyone living in graded towns, so a county of big cities is not marked down just for being urban. A county can do well on one measure and not the other; that difference is often the story.
Scores and grades. Each subject’s score (0–100) is the area’s standing in one UK league of 98: the ceremonial counties of England (London counts as one), Wales’s eight preserved counties, and Scotland’s 32 and Northern Ireland’s 11 council areas, each called by its own name. The two measures’ percentiles are averaged, then ranked again, the same method as our town grades. Where a nation publishes its own kind of figure, the official figure is ranked within that nation: school results everywhere, health in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and flood risk in Scotland. Each area’s figures are set beside its own nation’s. 100 is the best county, 0 the last. Letters use the town-grade scale (A+ from 95, A from 85, A− from 75 … D below 15). The overall score weighs safety 18, cost of living 18, schools 16, health 14, jobs & income 12, getting about 8, growth 8, flood risk 6 (out of 100), over the subjects a county has. Counties with fewer than 5 graded towns (Rutland, Bristol) are graded on the official figures alone.
What it is not. A county figure averages everyone, so it cannot show whether a county is evenly good or a mix of very good and struggling places. The town measure shows the mix but leaves out villages and towns under 2,500. Neither says anything about any one street.
Gaps. Wales publishes no school results that compare with England’s, so Welsh counties have no Schools grade. Greater Manchester Police publishes no street-level crime, so Greater Manchester has no Safety grade and, as for its towns, no overall grade. Nor does Police Scotland, so Scotland’s council areas have no Safety grade or overall grade yet. Scotland and Northern Ireland have no small-area income figures, so their household income is estimated from ONS household income per head. Flood risk has no county-wide official figure; it is the share of homes in the county’s towns at high or medium risk. Sources are named under each figure. How grades work
Sources: 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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