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CSafety Grade
Safety in Crigglestone and Durkar · police.uk, 2023–2026

Crigglestone and Durkar has more violent crime per resident than seven in ten UK towns

Its Safety Grade is C, on crimes police recorded inside Crigglestone and Durkar’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #32 of 91 in West Yorkshire. The typical town its size sees 1.9 cases of burglary per 1,000 residents; Crigglestone and Durkar sees 3.4, or 23 in the 12 months to August 2026. Typical years here bring 31.4 violent and sexual offences plus 10.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents.

Violent crime
31.4
per 1,000 residents a year · graded
Homes & vehicles
10.6
burglary, vehicle crime, damage · graded
Shoplifting & theft
6.9
per 1,000 a year · not graded
Anti-social behaviour
10.2
reports per 1,000 a year · not graded

Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.

What stands out · In brief

What stands out about safety in Crigglestone and Durkar

More crime than many places its size

Of 481 UK towns of 5,000 to 9,000 people, Crigglestone and Durkar has the 319th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Magherafelt, Fazeley and Treorchy, higher than Shefford, Hungerford and Netley. Towns its size ↓

Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.

Safety Grade

The C for Crigglestone and Durkar, and how it is built

Compared with UK towns its sizeLess crime per resident than 29% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: more crime than most for its size. Context only, not part of the grade.
Violent and sexual offences (31.4 per 1,000 a year, 3-year average)Less crime than 29% of UK towns
Homes and vehicles (10.6 per 1,000 a year, 3-year average)Less crime than 42% of UK towns
CC+

A fairly firm grade. Built on 842 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Crigglestone and Durkar against every UK town of 1,000 or more.

Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.

Neighbourhoods · England-wide rank

How Crigglestone and Durkar’s neighbourhoods rank in England

0%1
0%2
12%3
0%4
11%5
0%6
77%7
0%8
0%9
0%10
Higher crimeLower crime

0% 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.

Crigglestone and Durkar’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.

By type

What police recorded in the last 12 months

Violence & sexual offences31.6
Anti-social behaviour8.4
Criminal damage & arson6.7
Public order5.8
Burglary3.4
Other theft3.3
Vehicle crime3
Other crime3
Drugs1.3
Shoplifting0.3
Bicycle theft0.3
Possession of weapons0.1
Robbery0.1
Theft from the person0.1
Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Not gradedTypical town its size

Against the typical town its size, Crigglestone and Durkar runs highest on other crime (3 per 1,000 against 1.5), burglary (3.4 per 1,000 against 1.9) and public order (5.8 per 1,000 against 3.6).

Show as a table
CategoryIn the gradeReportsPer 1,000Typical
Violence & sexual offencesViolent21131.622.4
Anti-social behaviournot graded568.48.8
Criminal damage & arsonHome & vehicle456.74.5
Public ordernot graded395.83.6
BurglaryHome & vehicle233.41.9
Other theftnot graded223.33.2
Vehicle crimeHome & vehicle2032
Other crimenot graded2031.5
Drugsnot graded91.31
Shopliftingnot graded20.31.8
Bicycle theftnot graded20.30.1
Possession of weaponsViolent10.10.4
RobberyViolent10.10.2
Theft from the personnot graded10.10

“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.

What happened next

Police in Crigglestone and Durkar identify a suspect less often than across UK towns

Violent crime
Crigglestone and Durkar
All UK towns
Homes & vehicles
Crigglestone and Durkar
All UK towns
Went to courtSuspect identified, unable to prosecuteNo suspect identifiedCaution, local resolution, otherStill open

No suspect was identified for 78% of Crigglestone and Durkar’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 16% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (60% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 3% 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. 270 crimes.

Towns its size

Among 481 towns its size, Crigglestone and Durkar ranks 319th for the least graded crime

#TownPeopleViolentHomes & vehiclesShops & theftSafety
1Merley Dorset5,4898.42.83.8A+
…
69Burley in Wharfedale West Yorkshire6,80615.18.63.8B+
…
100Boston Spa West Yorkshire6,35820.16.42.8B+
…
148Menston West Yorkshire5,90520.59.14.5B
…
236Rawdon West Yorkshire6,73821.713.64.5C+
…
316Shefford Bedfordshire7,3172714.928.1C
317Hungerford Berkshire5,18429.412.69.4C
318Netley Hampshire6,30929.412.76.2C
319Crigglestone and Durkar West Yorkshire6,67231.410.66.9C
320Hornsea East Riding of Yorkshire8,79732.49.75.5C
321Longridge Lancashire8,73931.111.39.7C
322Gowerton West Glamorgan7,44732.210.37.1C
…
481City of London London7,820252.8111.5710D−

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 Crigglestone and Durkar, and others in West Yorkshire.

1,000 residents · one year

Crime in Crigglestone and Durkar per 1,000 residents

Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Shoplifting & theft (not graded)
213
violent and sexual offences, 12 months to August 2026
88
homes & vehicles
27
shoplifting & theft
49
of the three, per 1,000

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 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 4 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.

Trend · monthly

Violent crime held steady over the year

“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 -1% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +57% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -50% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -20% (towns its size +0%).

On the roads

No one died in a collision on Crigglestone and Durkar’s roads in 2021–2025

Police recorded 36 collisions with injuries inside Crigglestone and Durkar in five years. 6 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.

Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Crigglestone and Durkar is one of them.

Counting serious injuries too, a town of Crigglestone and Durkar’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 6 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Crigglestone and Durkar had 6.

0
people killed, 2021–2025
6
killed or seriously injured
0
of them on foot
1
of them on a bicycle

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 Crigglestone and Durkar’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.

Neighbours

Crime in the places around Crigglestone and Durkar

ABCD
TownPeopleViolentHomes & vehiclesSafety
Crigglestone and Durkar6,67231.410.6C
Hall Green2,30739.211.6C−
Horbury9,86847.315.3D
Netherton (Wakefield)2,33118.57.3B+
Walton3,26618.38.6B
Wakefield97,87169.222.9D−
Middlestown and Overton2,40927.19.1C+
Ossett21,85433.813.6C

Crigglestone and Durkar records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Netherton (Wakefield), 2.2 miles away, records 18.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Crigglestone and Durkar’s 31.4.

Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 Crigglestone and Durkar 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 Crigglestone and Durkar

Is Crigglestone and Durkar safe?

Police recorded 31.4 violent and sexual offences and 10.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Crigglestone and Durkar’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 31% of UK towns. Among 481 UK towns of 5,000 to 9,000 people, Crigglestone and Durkar is 319th from the least crime.

Is crime going up in Crigglestone and Durkar?

In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 57%, shoplifting and theft fell 50% and anti-social behaviour fell 20%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.

What is the most common crime in Crigglestone and Durkar?

Violence & sexual offences: 211 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (45) and public order (39), with 56 reports of anti-social behaviour.

How does Crigglestone and Durkar compare with Wakefield?

Wakefield records 69.2 violent and sexual offences and 22.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Crigglestone and Durkar’s 31.4 and 10.6, 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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