Photo: Tim Green · CC BY 2.0Ripponden is about average among UK towns for recorded crime
It has less crime per resident than 59% of the UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, 1,308 in all. Taking everything together, Ripponden scores B (#10 of 91 in West Yorkshire): close to the middle of UK towns, measured on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026. Recorded violence fell 24% in a year. Year on year, 20.3 violent and sexual offences and 9.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur 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 Ripponden
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 24% less violent crime per resident in Ripponden 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 9% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Ripponden has the 298th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Kessingland, Dunton Green and Lanchester, higher than Wotton-under-Edge, Ringmer and Lambourn. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Ripponden’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 428 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Ripponden 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 Ripponden 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 -24% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -9% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -53% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -20% (towns its size +0%).
How Ripponden’s neighbourhoods rank in England
48% 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.
Ripponden’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Ripponden runs highest on vehicle crime (3.8 per 1,000 against 2) and burglary (2.9 per 1,000 against 1.9). Other theft and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 81 | 17 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 20 | 4.2 | 8.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 18 | 3.8 | 2 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 17 | 3.6 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 14 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 14 | 2.9 | 1.9 |
| Other theft | not graded | 11 | 2.3 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 5 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 4 | 0.8 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 0.6 | 1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“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.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 65% of Ripponden’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” (71% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 0% 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. 130 crimes.
Of 706 towns its size, Ripponden is 298th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 118 | Addingham West Yorkshire | 3,247 | 13.2 | 8.9 | 3.4 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 217 | Walton West Yorkshire | 3,266 | 18.3 | 8.6 | 3 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 239 | Bramhope West Yorkshire | 3,593 | 18.2 | 9.4 | 4.9 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 292 | Menston West Yorkshire | 5,905 | 20.5 | 9.1 | 4.5 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 295 | Wotton-under-Edge Gloucestershire | 4,966 | 22.3 | 7.5 | 6.3 | B |
| 296 | Ringmer East Sussex | 3,221 | 21.4 | 8.4 | 3.7 | B |
| 297 | Lambourn Berkshire | 3,141 | 22 | 7.9 | 3.8 | B |
| 298 | Ripponden West Yorkshire | 4,775 | 20.3 | 9.6 | 4.5 | B |
| 299 | Needham Market Suffolk | 5,055 | 20.6 | 9.3 | 7.1 | B |
| 300 | Wheatley Oxfordshire | 4,305 | 20.3 | 9.6 | 10.9 | B |
| 301 | Kirkburton West Yorkshire | 4,033 | 20.6 | 9.3 | 5 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 706 | 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 Ripponden, and others in West Yorkshire.
Crime in Ripponden 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 10 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 3 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
No one died in a collision on Ripponden’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 32 collisions with injuries inside Ripponden in five years. 15 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 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 Ripponden is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, Ripponden had 63.4 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 Ripponden’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Ripponden
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripponden | 4,775 | 20.3 | 9.6 | B |
| Sowerby Bridge | 4,483 | 61 | 25.7 | D− |
| Holywell Green and Stainland | 2,799 | 32 | 10.6 | C |
| Outlane | 1,172 | 19.3 | 12.5 | B− |
| Luddenden Foot | 2,148 | 43.5 | 14.7 | D |
| Elland | 15,788 | 45 | 18 | D |
| Mytholmroyd | 3,852 | 36.7 | 15.4 | C− |
| Halifax | 88,111 | 74.5 | 25.9 | D− |
Ripponden records less graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table.
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 Ripponden 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 Ripponden
Is Ripponden safe?
Police recorded 20.3 violent and sexual offences and 9.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Ripponden’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 56% of UK towns. Among 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Ripponden is 298th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Ripponden?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 24%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 9%, shoplifting and theft fell 53% 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 Ripponden?
Violence & sexual offences: 81 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (18) and criminal damage & arson (17), with 20 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Ripponden compare with Huddersfield?
Huddersfield records 57.1 violent and sexual offences and 18.5 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Ripponden’s 20.3 and 9.6, 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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