Photo: Tim Green aka atouch · CC BY 2.0Mytholmroyd stands out for shoplifting: 3.7 times the rate of a typical town its size
Among the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, it records less crime per resident than 16%. Overall, it grades C− for safety (#49 of 91 in West Yorkshire). Violence recorded locally dropped 42% in a year. Each year brought 36.7 violent and sexual offences and 15.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 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 Mytholmroyd
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 42% less violent crime per resident in Mytholmroyd 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 fell 8% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 539 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people, Mytholmroyd has the 475th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Appleby-in-Westmorland, Middleton St George and Spilsby, higher than St Asaph, Backworth and Tumble. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
41% of Mytholmroyd’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 0% 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.
Inside Mytholmroyd’s C− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 600 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Mytholmroyd against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How crime in Mytholmroyd 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 -42% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -8% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -27% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -44% (towns its size +0%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Mytholmroyd runs highest on shoplifting (6.7 per 1,000 against 1.8), other crime (3.9 per 1,000 against 1.5) and vehicle crime (3.4 per 1,000 against 2). Anti-social behaviour sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 97 | 25.2 | 22.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 26 | 6.7 | 1.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 25 | 6.5 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 22 | 5.7 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 18 | 4.7 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 15 | 3.9 | 1.5 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 14 | 3.6 | 8.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 13 | 3.4 | 2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 8 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 5 | 1.3 | 1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 3 | 0.8 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 2 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
“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.
41% of Mytholmroyd residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 41% 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.
Mytholmroyd’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.
Mytholmroyd places 475th of 539 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 100 | Addingham West Yorkshire | 3,247 | 13.2 | 8.9 | 3.4 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 180 | Walton West Yorkshire | 3,266 | 18.3 | 8.6 | 3 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 195 | Bramhope West Yorkshire | 3,593 | 18.2 | 9.4 | 4.9 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 247 | Ripponden West Yorkshire | 4,775 | 20.3 | 9.6 | 4.5 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 472 | St Asaph Clwyd | 3,483 | 39.3 | 12.5 | 10.1 | C− |
| 473 | Backworth Tyne and Wear | 4,483 | 34.6 | 17.2 | 23.3 | C− |
| 474 | Tumble Dyfed | 4,040 | 40.5 | 11.5 | 2.8 | C− |
| 475 | Mytholmroyd West Yorkshire | 3,852 | 36.7 | 15.4 | 17 | C− |
| 476 | Cranbrook Kent | 3,962 | 31.8 | 20.4 | 37.1 | C− |
| 477 | Market Rasen Lincolnshire | 4,959 | 41.4 | 11.1 | 21.3 | C− |
| 478 | Castle Cary Somerset | 3,451 | 38.6 | 14.1 | 4.6 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 539 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 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 Mytholmroyd, and others in West Yorkshire.
Crime in Mytholmroyd 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 12 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 12 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 Mytholmroyd identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 64% of Mytholmroyd’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 17% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (56% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 4% 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. 233 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Mytholmroyd’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 20 collisions with injuries inside Mytholmroyd in five years. 5 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 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 Mytholmroyd is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Mytholmroyd’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 3 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Mytholmroyd had 5.
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 Mytholmroyd’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Mytholmroyd
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mytholmroyd | 3,852 | 36.7 | 15.4 | C− |
| Hebden Bridge | 5,230 | 33.2 | 12.7 | C |
| Luddenden Foot | 2,148 | 43.5 | 14.7 | D |
| Sowerby Bridge | 4,483 | 61 | 25.7 | D− |
| Halifax | 88,111 | 74.5 | 25.9 | D− |
| Ripponden | 4,775 | 20.3 | 9.6 | B |
| Todmorden | 12,971 | 52.3 | 17.2 | D |
| Oxenhope | 1,898 | 17.6 | 13.7 | B− |
Mytholmroyd records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Hebden Bridge, 1.4 miles away, records 33.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Mytholmroyd’s 36.7.
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 Mytholmroyd 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 Mytholmroyd
Is Mytholmroyd safe?
Police recorded 36.7 violent and sexual offences and 15.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Mytholmroyd’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 19% of UK towns. Among 539 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people, Mytholmroyd is 475th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Mytholmroyd?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 42%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 8%, shoplifting and theft fell 27% and anti-social behaviour fell 44%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Mytholmroyd?
Violence & sexual offences: 97 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (26) and criminal damage & arson (25), with 14 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Mytholmroyd compare with Halifax?
Halifax records 74.5 violent and sexual offences and 25.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Mytholmroyd’s 36.7 and 15.4, 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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