Photo: Mtaylor848 · CC BY-SA 3.0Guiseley records shoplifting at 3.1 times the rate of a typical town its size
Guiseley’s overall Safety Grade is C (#35 of 91 in West Yorkshire): more crime per resident than 70% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Of all the kinds of crime, shoplifting is where Guiseley departs most from towns its size: 18.9 per 1,000 against 6.1. Violence recorded locally dropped 16% 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 Guiseley
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 16% less violent crime per resident in Guiseley 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 fell 8% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 376 UK towns of 9,000 to 17,000 people, Guiseley has the 200th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Kirk Sandall and Edenthorpe, Ringwood and Barnham, higher than Aldridge, Pelsall and Beccles. 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. 11% of Guiseley’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 4% 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.
Guiseley: C for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 1,599 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Guiseley 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, Guiseley runs highest on shoplifting (18.9 per 1,000 against 6.1), burglary (3.5 per 1,000 against 2.4) and vehicle crime (3.5 per 1,000 against 2.8). Other crime and other theft sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 337 | 27 | 30.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 235 | 18.9 | 6.1 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 123 | 9.9 | 12.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 68 | 5.5 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 64 | 5.1 | 6.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 43 | 3.5 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 43 | 3.5 | 2.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 40 | 3.2 | 4.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 18 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 12 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 9 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 7 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 5 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 4 | 0.3 | 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.
1 in 9 Guiseley residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
51% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 4% 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.
Guiseley’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 Guiseley 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 -16% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -8% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -6% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +15% (towns its size -4%).
For every 1,000 residents, about 28 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 12 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 23 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 71% of Guiseley’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 20% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (62% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% 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. 513 crimes.
200th of 376: Guiseley among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 77 | Ilkley West Yorkshire | 14,852 | 18.1 | 12.7 | 13 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 114 | Garforth West Yorkshire | 15,148 | 23 | 10.9 | 7.9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 124 | Honley West Yorkshire | 14,399 | 26.4 | 8.6 | 5.3 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 141 | Shelf and Northowram West Yorkshire | 9,191 | 21.4 | 15.3 | 7.5 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 197 | Aldridge West Midlands | 15,827 | 24 | 18.4 | 15.5 | C |
| 198 | Pelsall West Midlands | 10,455 | 25.5 | 17.2 | 10.1 | C |
| 199 | Beccles Suffolk | 9,807 | 29.1 | 13.8 | 16 | C |
| 200 | Guiseley West Yorkshire | 12,462 | 30 | 13 | 22.1 | C |
| 201 | Gomersal and Birkenshaw West Yorkshire | 13,948 | 26 | 17.2 | 12.4 | C |
| 202 | Midsomer Norton Somerset | 13,749 | 33.1 | 10.1 | 9.2 | C |
| 203 | Teignmouth Devon | 15,314 | 32 | 11.3 | 12.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 376 | 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 Guiseley, and others in West Yorkshire.
Where in Guiseley police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping areas | 582 | 67% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 314 | 56% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 50 | 34% violent |
| Car parks | 39 | 26% violent |
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 Guiseley. 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 Guiseley’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 51 collisions with injuries inside Guiseley in five years. 19 people were killed or seriously injured: 7 on foot and 3 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 Guiseley’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Guiseley’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Guiseley had 30.6 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).
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 Guiseley’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Guiseley
Guiseley records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Yeadon and Baildon record more. Menston, 1.3 miles away, records 20.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Guiseley’s 30.
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 Guiseley 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 Guiseley
Is Guiseley safe?
Police recorded 30 violent and sexual offences and 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Guiseley’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 30% of UK towns. Among 376 UK towns of 9,000 to 17,000 people, Guiseley is 200th from the least crime. 11% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Guiseley?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 16%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 8%, shoplifting and theft fell 6% and anti-social behaviour rose 15%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Guiseley?
Violence & sexual offences: 337 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (235) and public order (68), with 123 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Guiseley compare with Leeds?
Leeds records 65.4 violent and sexual offences and 29.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Guiseley’s 30 and 13, 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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