The Parish Church of St Mary · Photo: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.0Yapton stands out for anti-social behaviour: 3.9 times the rate of a typical town its size
Yapton grades C− for safety overall (#36 of 40 in West Sussex): more crime per resident than 80% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Police recorded 216 cases of anti-social behaviour in the town in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 34.1 per 1,000 against a typical 8.8. Violence recorded locally climbed 6% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Yapton
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 6% more violent crime per resident in Yapton than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 23% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 715 UK towns of 4,000 to 9,000 people, Yapton has the 579th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Rainworth, London Colney and Lenham and Harrietsham, higher than Abergele, Takeley and Little Canfield and Longstanton and Northstowe. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Yapton’s C− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 975 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Yapton 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, Yapton runs highest on anti-social behaviour (34.1 per 1,000 against 8.8), shoplifting (5.8 per 1,000 against 1.8) and vehicle crime (5.7 per 1,000 against 2).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 216 | 34.1 | 8.8 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 210 | 33.1 | 22.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 62 | 9.8 | 4.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 37 | 5.8 | 1.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 36 | 5.7 | 2 |
| Public order | not graded | 34 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 25 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 18 | 2.8 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 18 | 2.8 | 1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 14 | 2.2 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 8 | 1.3 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 8 | 1.3 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.2 | 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.
How Yapton’s neighbourhoods rank in England
24% 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.
Yapton’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.
Yapton is 579th of 715 UK towns of 4,000 to 9,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 37 | Crawley Down West Sussex | 5,775 | 13.2 | 5.3 | 3.2 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 85 | Steyning West Sussex | 5,513 | 14.1 | 8.2 | 22.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 111 | East Wittering West Sussex | 6,060 | 17.3 | 6.3 | 8.1 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 140 | Broadbridge Heath West Sussex | 6,357 | 15.2 | 9.7 | 13.7 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 576 | Abergele Clwyd | 8,531 | 39.3 | 11.6 | 11.3 | C− |
| 577 | Takeley and Little Canfield Essex | 5,553 | 31.3 | 19.8 | 11.8 | C− |
| 578 | Longstanton and Northstowe Cambridgeshire | 5,278 | 35.2 | 16.1 | 7.4 | C− |
| 579 | Yapton West Sussex | 6,337 | 31.9 | 19.4 | 12 | C− |
| 580 | Gwersyllt Clwyd | 7,112 | 38.1 | 13.4 | 9.7 | C− |
| 581 | Pelton and Ouston County Durham | 7,305 | 31 | 20.4 | 6.8 | C− |
| 582 | Crediton Devon | 7,971 | 39.3 | 12.2 | 15.6 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 715 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | 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 Yapton, and others in West Sussex.
Police in Yapton identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 78% of Yapton’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (69% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 2% 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. 326 crimes.
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 18 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 10 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Yapton has moved
“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 +6% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +23% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -16% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +69% (towns its size +0%).
Where in Yapton police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 187 | 64% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 45 | 42% anti-social behaviour |
| Airports and airfields | 40 | 68% anti-social behaviour |
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 Yapton. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Yapton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 36 collisions with injuries inside Yapton in five years. 8 people were killed or seriously injured: 5 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Yapton is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Yapton’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 5 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Yapton had 8.
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 Yapton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Yapton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yapton | 6,337 | 31.9 | 19.4 | C− |
| Walberton | 1,236 | 17 | 8.6 | B+ |
| Wick | 13,231 | 37.6 | 14.2 | C− |
| Barnham | 10,139 | 28.7 | 15.2 | C |
| Arundel | 3,035 | 21.3 | 19.1 | C |
| Littlehampton | 19,060 | 49.9 | 19.9 | D |
| Bognor Regis | 68,443 | 33.6 | 16.3 | C− |
| Rustington | 33,885 | 17.3 | 8.9 | B+ |
Yapton records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Wick and Littlehampton record more. Walberton, 2.2 miles away, records 17 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Yapton’s 31.9.
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 40 at an airport or airfield over three years. They count in Yapton’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 Yapton 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 Yapton
Is Yapton safe?
Police recorded 31.9 violent and sexual offences and 19.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Yapton’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 20% of UK towns. Among 715 UK towns of 4,000 to 9,000 people, Yapton is 579th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Yapton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 6%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 23%, shoplifting and theft fell 16% and anti-social behaviour rose 69%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Yapton?
Violence & sexual offences: 210 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (62) and shoplifting (37), with 216 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Yapton compare with Worthing?
Worthing records 34.1 violent and sexual offences and 12.6 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Yapton’s 31.9 and 19.4, 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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