Photo: Bill Boaden · CC BY-SA 2.0Royal Sutton Coldfield has more burglary, vehicle crime and damage per resident than 87% of UK towns
More crime per resident is recorded in 86% of the 207 UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more. Royal Sutton Coldfield’s letter overall is C (#11 of 35 in West Midlands): more crime per resident than 71% of UK towns, from crimes police recorded inside its built-up area through September 2023 to August 2026. Recorded violence rose 12% in a year. Each year brought 26.6 violent and sexual offences and 17.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 1,000 residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Royal Sutton Coldfield
One ward carries much of the rate
Sutton Reddicap ward recorded 1,722 of Royal Sutton Coldfield’s 7,441 violent and sexual offences in three years: 57.2 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Royal Sutton Coldfield the figure is 22.6. Where in Royal Sutton Coldfield ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 12% more violent crime per resident in Royal Sutton Coldfield 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 ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 75 UK towns and cities of 65,000 to 126,000 people, Royal Sutton Coldfield has the 8th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Solihull, Bognor Regis and Shrewsbury, higher than Woking, Craigavon and Rugby. 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. 27% of Royal Sutton Coldfield’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 6% 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.
Royal Sutton Coldfield: C for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 12,305 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Royal Sutton Coldfield 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 Sutton Coldfield runs highest on vehicle crime (7.5 per 1,000 against 4.9), robbery (1.9 per 1,000 against 1.4) and shoplifting (13.5 per 1,000 against 10.3). Other crime and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 2,297 | 24.6 | 38.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 1,260 | 13.5 | 10.3 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 701 | 7.5 | 4.9 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 432 | 4.6 | 7.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 417 | 4.5 | 7.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 367 | 3.9 | 17.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 362 | 3.9 | 6.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 361 | 3.9 | 3.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 175 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 110 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 101 | 1.1 | 2.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 89 | 1 | 3.8 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 54 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 29 | 0.3 | 0.9 |
“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.
Of 75 towns its size, Royal Sutton Coldfield is 8th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Newtownabbey Antrim and Newtownabbey | 67,599 | 21.3 | 9 | 8.3 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | Woking Surrey | 75,655 | 31.9 | 11 | 14.4 | C |
| 6 | Craigavon Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 72,301 | 30.9 | 12.3 | 11.4 | C |
| 7 | Rugby Warwickshire | 78,130 | 32 | 12.1 | 11.9 | C |
| 8 | Royal Sutton Coldfield West Midlands | 93,392 | 26.6 | 17.5 | 17.8 | C |
| 9 | Bracknell Berkshire | 78,662 | 31.9 | 13.5 | 18.4 | C |
| 10 | Worthing West Sussex | 111,635 | 34.1 | 12.6 | 24.3 | C |
| 11 | Southport Merseyside | 94,438 | 37.2 | 9.8 | 12.7 | C |
| 12 | Solihull West Midlands | 107,754 | 28.4 | 19.2 | 26.7 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 64 | West Bromwich West Midlands | 103,099 | 54.4 | 24.7 | 17.4 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 68 | Walsall West Midlands | 70,777 | 62.9 | 26.3 | 27.8 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 75 | 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield, and others in West Midlands.
1 in 4 Royal Sutton Coldfield residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
60% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 6% 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 Sutton Coldfield’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.
How crime in Royal Sutton Coldfield 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 +12% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -3% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +16% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -34% (towns its size -2%).
Lowest recorded crime in Sutton Four Oaks, Sutton Roughley and Sutton Walmley & Minworth; highest in Sutton Reddicap
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Four Oaks | 9,326 | 14.9 | 12.1 | |
| Sutton Roughley | 11,804 | 14.1 | 13.4 | |
| Sutton Walmley & Minworth | 13,018 | 17.5 | 13.6 | |
| Sutton Wylde Green | 9,300 | 19.4 | 16.2 | |
| Sutton Mere Green | 9,670 | 22.7 | 15.4 | |
| Sutton Vesey | 20,116 | 24.7 | 18.2 | |
| Sutton Trinity | 9,483 | 46 | 25.2 | |
| Sutton Reddicap | 10,043 | 57.2 | 24.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 1,438 | 71% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 1,034 | 40% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 1,024 | 66% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 910 | 49% shoplifting & theft |
| Hospitals | 768 | 59% violent |
| Police stations | 77 | 48% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 50 | 40% violent |
| College and university buildings | 47 | 64% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Sutton Reddicap records 2.5× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Royal Sutton Coldfield. 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 Sutton Coldfield. 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 Sutton Coldfield’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Crime in Royal Sutton Coldfield 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 16 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 18 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 72% of Royal Sutton Coldfield’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 18% 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 6% of violent and 4% 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. 4,377 crimes.
Five people died in collisions on Royal Sutton Coldfield’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 435 collisions with injuries inside Royal Sutton Coldfield in five years, in which five people died (2 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist). 97 people were killed or seriously injured: 35 on foot and 10 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 Sutton Coldfield’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Royal Sutton Coldfield’s own rate (1.1) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Royal Sutton Coldfield had 20.8 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Royal Sutton Coldfield
Royal Sutton Coldfield records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Shenstone records more. Streetly, 2.7 miles away, records 11.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Royal Sutton Coldfield’s 26.6.
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 768 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Royal Sutton Coldfield’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 Royal Sutton Coldfield 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 Sutton Coldfield
Is Royal Sutton Coldfield safe?
Police recorded 26.6 violent and sexual offences and 17.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Royal Sutton Coldfield’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 29% of UK towns. Among 75 UK towns of 65,000 to 126,000 people, Royal Sutton Coldfield is 8th from the least crime. 27% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Royal Sutton Coldfield?
By council ward, Sutton Four Oaks, Sutton Roughley and Sutton Walmley & Minworth record the least violent and household crime per resident: 14.9, 14.1 and 17.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 57.2 in Sutton Reddicap.
Is crime going up in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 12%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 16% and anti-social behaviour fell 34%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
Violence & sexual offences: 2,297 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (1,260) and vehicle crime (701), with 367 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Royal Sutton Coldfield 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield’s 26.6 and 17.5, 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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