Photo: Robin Stott · CC BY-SA 2.0Royal Leamington Spa stands out for bicycle theft: 2.5 times the rate of a typical town its size
Violent crime was up 15% in a year. Royal Leamington Spa’s overall Safety Grade is C− (#26 of 34 in Warwickshire): more crime per resident than 79% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Of all the kinds of crime, bicycle theft is where Royal Leamington Spa departs most from towns its size: 2.2 per 1,000 against 0.9.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Royal Leamington Spa
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 15% more violent crime per resident in Royal Leamington Spa 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 126 UK towns and cities of 36,000 to 69,000 people, Royal Leamington Spa has the 52nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Leyland, Andover and Huyton with Roby, higher than Bognor Regis, Cannock and Macclesfield. 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. 14% of Royal Leamington Spa’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 13% 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.
The C− for Royal Leamington Spa, and how it is built
A firm grade. Built on 7,801 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Royal Leamington Spa 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, Royal Leamington Spa runs highest on bicycle theft (2.2 per 1,000 against 0.9), vehicle crime (7.2 per 1,000 against 4.9) and anti-social behaviour (21.2 per 1,000 against 17.5). Public order and drugs sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,729 | 33.7 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 1,089 | 21.2 | 17.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 578 | 11.3 | 10.3 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 368 | 7.2 | 4.9 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 318 | 6.2 | 7.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 315 | 6.1 | 6.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 304 | 5.9 | 7.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 174 | 3.4 | 3.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 132 | 2.6 | 3.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 115 | 2.2 | 0.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 87 | 1.7 | 2.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 71 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 66 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 38 | 0.7 | 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.
How crime in Royal Leamington Spa 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 +15% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -3% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +22% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour +29% (towns its size -2%).
For every 1,000 residents, about 36 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
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 17 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 20 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Lowest recorded crime in Leamington Milverton, Leamington Lillington and Leamington Willes; highest in Leamington Clarendon
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leamington Milverton | 9,439 | 14.3 | 16.1 | |
| Leamington Lillington | 10,125 | 26.8 | 11.9 | |
| Leamington Willes | 10,844 | 30.8 | 15.8 | |
| Leamington Brunswick | 10,332 | 35.4 | 15.8 | |
| Leamington Clarendon | 10,344 | 58.1 | 22.9 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 750 | 40% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 575 | 54% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 261 | 88% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 241 | 29% shoplifting & theft |
| Nightclubs | 88 | 65% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 59 | 32% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Leamington Clarendon records 2.1× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Royal Leamington Spa. 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 Royal Leamington Spa. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Royal Leamington Spa’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
1 in 7 Royal Leamington Spa residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
28% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 13% 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.
Royal Leamington Spa’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.
Towns its size: Royal Leamington Spa comes 52nd of 126
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 49 | Bognor Regis West Sussex | 68,443 | 33.6 | 16.3 | 16.6 | C− |
| 50 | Cannock Staffordshire | 63,057 | 39.1 | 10.9 | 12.8 | C− |
| 51 | Macclesfield Cheshire | 54,352 | 40.2 | 10.2 | 14.3 | C− |
| 52 | Royal Leamington Spa Warwickshire | 51,321 | 34 | 16.8 | 19.3 | C− |
| 53 | Rowley Regis West Midlands | 39,052 | 36.6 | 14.4 | 7.6 | C− |
| 54 | Newbury Berkshire | 42,262 | 37.1 | 14.1 | 20.3 | C− |
| 55 | Warwick Warwickshire | 36,673 | 34.1 | 17.2 | 18.6 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 126 | Bridgwater Somerset | 47,846 | 76.8 | 18.9 | 29.3 | 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 Royal Leamington Spa, and others in Warwickshire.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 68% of Royal Leamington Spa’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” (68% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 10% 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. 2,562 crimes.
One person died in collisions on Royal Leamington Spa’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 265 collisions with injuries inside Royal Leamington Spa in five years, in which one person died. 44 people were killed or seriously injured: 13 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 Royal Leamington Spa’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Royal Leamington Spa’s own rate (0.4) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Royal Leamington Spa had 17.2 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). 30% 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 Royal Leamington Spa’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Royal Leamington Spa
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Leamington Spa | 51,321 | 34 | 16.8 | C− |
| Whitnash | 8,914 | 15.3 | 7.1 | A− |
| Radford Semele | 2,301 | 12.8 | 7.4 | A− |
| Cubbington | 3,895 | 16.9 | 6.2 | A− |
| Warwick | 36,673 | 34.1 | 17.2 | C− |
| Leek Wootton | 1,003 | 7.3 | 4.3 | A+ |
| Bishop's Tachbrook | 2,086 | 16.8 | 6.2 | A− |
| Hampton Magna | 1,636 | 23.4 | 9.4 | B− |
Royal Leamington Spa records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Warwick records more. Whitnash, 1.7 miles away, records 15.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Royal Leamington Spa’s 34.
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 Royal Leamington Spa 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 Royal Leamington Spa
Is Royal Leamington Spa safe?
Police recorded 34 violent and sexual offences and 16.8 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Royal Leamington Spa’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 21% of UK towns. Among 126 UK towns of 36,000 to 69,000 people, Royal Leamington Spa is 52nd from the least crime. 14% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Royal Leamington Spa?
By council ward, Leamington Milverton, Leamington Lillington and Leamington Willes record the least violent and household crime per resident: 14.3, 26.8 and 30.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 58.1 in Leamington Clarendon.
Is crime going up in Royal Leamington Spa?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 15%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 22% and anti-social behaviour rose 29%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Royal Leamington Spa town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 88 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 65% of them violent, and Leamington Clarendon ward records 58.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in August and was lowest in February.
What is the most common crime in Royal Leamington Spa?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,729 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (578) and vehicle crime (368), with 1,089 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.