Photo: J3Mrs. · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Horbury runs higher than in 90% of UK towns
Its letter for safety is D, worked out from crimes police recorded inside Horbury’s built-up area over September 2023 to August 2026: #64 of 91 in West Yorkshire. More crime per resident is recorded in 8% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Violent crime was down 14% in a year. Per 1,000 residents a year, 47.3 violent and sexual offences and 15.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were recorded.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Horbury
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 14% less violent crime per resident in Horbury 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 held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 411 UK towns of 7,000 to 13,000 people, Horbury has the 357th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Thorne, Abersychan and Shirebrook, higher than Darfield, Sandown and Brandon. 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. 19% of Horbury’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 15% 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.
What sits behind Horbury’s D
A firm grade. Built on 1,855 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Horbury 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, Horbury runs highest on other crime (4.5 per 1,000 against 1.5), vehicle crime (5 per 1,000 against 2) and public order (8.4 per 1,000 against 3.6). Anti-social behaviour sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 409 | 41.4 | 22.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 83 | 8.4 | 3.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 68 | 6.9 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 56 | 5.7 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 55 | 5.6 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 49 | 5 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 44 | 4.5 | 1.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 39 | 4 | 1.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 29 | 2.9 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 7 | 0.7 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 7 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 2 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
“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.
Of 411 towns its size, Horbury is 357th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 178 | Shelf and Northowram West Yorkshire | 9,191 | 21.4 | 15.3 | 7.5 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 213 | Kippax West Yorkshire | 10,299 | 27.4 | 12.7 | 6.7 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 231 | Silsden West Yorkshire | 8,392 | 30.1 | 11.6 | 8.2 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 249 | Guiseley West Yorkshire | 12,462 | 30 | 13 | 22.1 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 354 | Darfield South Yorkshire | 7,209 | 38 | 24.4 | 7.4 | D |
| 355 | Sandown Isle of Wight | 11,652 | 47.7 | 14.8 | 22.9 | D |
| 356 | Brandon County Durham | 9,508 | 43.5 | 19 | 9.6 | D |
| 357 | Horbury West Yorkshire | 9,868 | 47.3 | 15.3 | 9.2 | D |
| 358 | Brecon Powys | 8,257 | 47.9 | 14.9 | 10.2 | D |
| 359 | Minehead Somerset | 11,752 | 50.1 | 12.8 | 22.7 | D |
| 360 | Chadwell St Mary Essex | 10,680 | 39.5 | 24.1 | 7.3 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 411 | 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 Horbury, and others in West Yorkshire.
How crime in Horbury 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 -14% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +0% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +0% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +8% (towns its size +0%).
Crime in Horbury 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 14 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.
Police in Horbury identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 60% of Horbury’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” (63% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 7% 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. 683 crimes.
1 in 5 Horbury residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
19% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 15% 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.
Horbury’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.
Two people died in collisions on Horbury’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 65 collisions with injuries inside Horbury in five years, in which two people died (1 was a pedestrian). 21 people were killed or seriously injured: 4 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, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Horbury’s two people are context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Horbury had 42.9 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (16.7).
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 Horbury’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Horbury
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horbury | 9,868 | 47.3 | 15.3 | D |
| Ossett | 21,854 | 33.8 | 13.6 | C |
| Netherton (Wakefield) | 2,331 | 18.5 | 7.3 | B+ |
| Crigglestone and Durkar | 6,672 | 31.4 | 10.6 | C |
| Middlestown and Overton | 2,409 | 27.1 | 9.1 | C+ |
| Hall Green | 2,307 | 39.2 | 11.6 | C− |
| Wakefield | 97,871 | 69.2 | 22.9 | D− |
| Dewsbury | 63,730 | 63.4 | 22 | D− |
Horbury records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Wakefield and Dewsbury record more. Ossett, 1.5 miles away, records 33.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Horbury’s 47.3.
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 Horbury 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 Horbury
Is Horbury safe?
Police recorded 47.3 violent and sexual offences and 15.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Horbury’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 10% of UK towns. Among 411 UK towns of 7,000 to 13,000 people, Horbury is 357th from the least crime. 19% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Horbury?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 14%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour rose 8%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Horbury?
Violence & sexual offences: 409 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (83) and criminal damage & arson (56), with 68 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Horbury 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 Horbury’s 47.3 and 15.3, 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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