Brook House · Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0Violent crime per resident is lower in Cheswick Green than in 81% of UK towns
All told, Cheswick Green grades B+ for safety (#3 of 35 in West Midlands): less crime per resident than 69% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Vehicle crime: police recorded 11 locally in the 12 months to August 2026, 4 per 1,000 residents against 2 in a typical town its size. Annual rates stand at 14.0 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Cheswick Green
Less crime than many places its size
Of 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Cheswick Green has the 306th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Pen-pedair-heol, Fernhill Heath and East Bergholt, higher than Woodstock, Chickerell and Hurworth-on-Tees. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Cheswick Green: B+ for safety, and why
A fairly firm grade. Built on 207 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Cheswick Green against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How Cheswick Green’s neighbourhoods rank in England
55% 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.
Cheswick Green’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 police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Cheswick Green runs highest on vehicle crime (4 per 1,000 against 2). Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 39 | 14.2 | 22.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 13 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 11 | 4 | 2 |
| Public order | not graded | 8 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 7 | 2.6 | 1.9 |
| Other theft | not graded | 6 | 2.2 | 3.2 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 4 | 1.5 | 8.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 2 | 0.7 | 1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 1.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“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.
Cheswick Green is 306th of 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 303 | Woodstock Oxfordshire | 3,522 | 18.6 | 6.5 | 6.9 | B+ |
| 304 | Chickerell Dorset | 3,973 | 18.8 | 6.3 | 3.8 | B+ |
| 305 | Hurworth-on-Tees County Durham | 2,667 | 19.1 | 6 | 2.5 | B+ |
| 306 | Cheswick Green West Midlands | 2,743 | 14 | 11.2 | 1.7 | B+ |
| 307 | Church Stretton Shropshire | 3,576 | 18.1 | 7.1 | 8.1 | B+ |
| 308 | Codicote Hertfordshire | 2,677 | 16.7 | 8.5 | 1.7 | B+ |
| 309 | Badsey Worcestershire | 2,722 | 16.8 | 8.5 | 2 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 793 | Meriden West Midlands | 2,203 | 27.8 | 28.1 | 7.1 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 856 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 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 Cheswick Green, and others in West Midlands.
Crime in Cheswick Green 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 11 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 3 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
42 violent and sexual offences in the last 12 months, against 27 the year before
“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 +56% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +11% (towns its size -1%).
No one died in a collision on Cheswick Green’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 0 collisions with injuries inside Cheswick Green in five years. 0 people were killed or seriously injured.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Cheswick Green is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Cheswick Green’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Cheswick Green had 0.
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 Cheswick Green’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Cheswick Green
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheswick Green | 2,743 | 14 | 11.2 | B+ |
| Dickens Heath | 4,797 | 19.6 | 12.1 | B− |
| Tidbury Green | 1,552 | 30.1 | 11 | C |
| Hockley Heath | 1,899 | 14.6 | 18.4 | B− |
| Wythall | 2,077 | 11.3 | 15.1 | B+ |
| Knowle and Dorridge | 19,323 | 15.1 | 12 | B |
| Hollywood | 6,944 | 17.3 | 12.6 | B |
| Solihull | 107,754 | 28.4 | 19.2 | C− |
Cheswick Green records less graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table.
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 Cheswick Green 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 Cheswick Green
Is Cheswick Green safe?
Police recorded 14 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Cheswick Green’s built-up area). That earns a B+ for safety: less crime per resident than 69% of UK towns. Among 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Cheswick Green is 306th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Cheswick Green?
Police recorded 42 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 27 in the 12 months before. With numbers this small, a few crimes change the rate a lot.
What is the most common crime in Cheswick Green?
Violence & sexual offences: 39 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (13) and vehicle crime (11), with 4 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Cheswick Green 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 Cheswick Green’s 14 and 11.2, 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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