Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0On burglary, vehicle crime and damage, Baildon has a higher rate per resident than 85% of UK towns
Violence recorded locally dropped 7% in a year. Still, that puts it at C− for safety, judged on crimes police recorded inside Baildon’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #49 of 91 in West Yorkshire. Burglary stands out: 5 per 1,000 residents locally, against 2.4 in a typical town its size, with 86 recorded in the 12 months to August 2026. The yearly rates were 35.8 violent and sexual offences and 16.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 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 Baildon
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% less violent crime per resident in Baildon than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 317 UK towns of 12,000 to 23,000 people, Baildon has the 219th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Leek, Armthorpe and Lewes, higher than Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Maesteg and Heysham. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
26% of Baildon’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 28% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The C− for Baildon, and how it is built
A firm grade. Built on 2,674 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Baildon 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, Baildon runs highest on burglary (5 per 1,000 against 2.4), vehicle crime (3.9 per 1,000 against 2.8) and public order (6.6 per 1,000 against 5.4). Other crime and shoplifting sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 573 | 33.6 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 252 | 14.8 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 123 | 7.2 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 112 | 6.6 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 86 | 5 | 2.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 76 | 4.5 | 6.1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 69 | 4 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 67 | 3.9 | 2.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 34 | 2 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 25 | 1.5 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 14 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 8 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 7 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 4 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
“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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
26% of Baildon residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
28% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 26% 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.
Baildon’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.
Crime in Baildon 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 9 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Among 317 towns its size, Baildon ranks 219th for the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 51 | Ilkley West Yorkshire | 14,852 | 18.1 | 12.7 | 13 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 86 | Garforth West Yorkshire | 15,148 | 23 | 10.9 | 7.9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 90 | Honley West Yorkshire | 14,399 | 26.4 | 8.6 | 5.3 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 108 | Otley West Yorkshire | 14,549 | 25.6 | 11.3 | 9.3 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 216 | Kirkby-in-Ashfield Nottinghamshire | 21,262 | 35.7 | 16.4 | 19 | C− |
| 217 | Maesteg Mid Glamorgan | 18,342 | 36.7 | 15.5 | 17.3 | C− |
| 218 | Heysham Lancashire | 16,593 | 36.7 | 15.6 | 7.3 | C− |
| 219 | Baildon West Yorkshire | 17,056 | 35.8 | 16.5 | 8.2 | C− |
| 220 | Swanley Kent | 17,209 | 35.7 | 16.8 | 16 | C− |
| 221 | Keynsham Somerset | 19,257 | 39.1 | 13.4 | 9.4 | C− |
| 222 | East Ardsley West Yorkshire | 15,238 | 38 | 14.6 | 9 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 317 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | 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 Baildon, and others in West Yorkshire.
How crime in Baildon has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-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 -7% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -4% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +7% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +25% (towns its size -4%).
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 74% of Baildon’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” (69% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 4% 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. 875 crimes.
Where in Baildon police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping areas | 118 | 54% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 59 | 37% violent |
| Car parks | 27 | 48% 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 Baildon. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Two people died in collisions on Baildon’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 78 collisions with injuries inside Baildon in five years, in which two people died. 33 people were killed or seriously injured: 9 on foot and 2 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Baildon’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Baildon’s own rate (2.4) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Baildon had 38.8 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8). 27% of them were on foot, against 30% across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
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 Baildon’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Baildon
Baildon records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Bingley, 2.4 miles away, records 37 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Baildon’s 35.8.
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 Baildon 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 Baildon
Is Baildon safe?
Police recorded 35.8 violent and sexual offences and 16.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Baildon’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 19% of UK towns. Among 317 UK towns of 12,000 to 23,000 people, Baildon is 219th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Baildon?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 7% and anti-social behaviour rose 25%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Baildon?
Violence & sexual offences: 573 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (123) and public order (112), with 252 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Baildon compare with Bradford?
Bradford records 72.2 violent and sexual offences and 28.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Baildon’s 35.8 and 16.5, 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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