Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Silsden records burglary at 2.1 times the rate of a typical town its size
Violent crime here is higher than in 68% of UK towns; burglary, vehicle crime and damage, higher than in 64%. Its Safety Grade, C (#30 of 91 in West Yorkshire), rests on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: more crime per resident than 68% of UK towns. Violence recorded locally climbed 7% in a year. The yearly rates were 30.1 violent and sexual offences and 11.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage 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 Silsden
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% more violent crime per resident in Silsden 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 430 UK towns of 6,000 to 11,000 people, Silsden has the 269th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Crigglestone and Durkar, Hornsea and Sandiacre, higher than East Cowes, Shiremoor and Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Silsden’s C
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,049 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Silsden 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 Silsden’s neighbourhoods rank in England
18% 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.
Silsden’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, Silsden runs highest on burglary (3.9 per 1,000 against 1.9), vehicle crime (4.2 per 1,000 against 2) and shoplifting (3.2 per 1,000 against 1.8). Criminal damage & arson sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 264 | 31.5 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 89 | 10.6 | 8.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 35 | 4.2 | 2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 33 | 3.9 | 1.9 |
| Public order | not graded | 29 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 27 | 3.2 | 1.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 26 | 3.1 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 24 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 12 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 10 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 4 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 4 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 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 in Silsden identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 77% of Silsden’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 12% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (72% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 5% 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. 336 crimes.
How crime in Silsden 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 +7% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +1% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -24% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +112% (towns its size +0%).
Of 430 towns its size, Silsden is 269th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | 6,763 | 9.6 | 5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 50 | Burley in Wharfedale West Yorkshire | 6,806 | 15.1 | 8.6 | 3.8 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 78 | Boston Spa West Yorkshire | 6,358 | 20.1 | 6.4 | 2.8 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 198 | Rawdon West Yorkshire | 6,738 | 21.7 | 13.6 | 4.5 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 213 | Shelf and Northowram West Yorkshire | 9,191 | 21.4 | 15.3 | 7.5 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 266 | East Cowes Isle of Wight | 8,424 | 33.5 | 8 | 10.7 | C |
| 267 | Shiremoor Tyne and Wear | 6,965 | 27.8 | 13.7 | 17 | C |
| 268 | Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Staffordshire | 6,798 | 31.3 | 10.3 | 8.2 | C |
| 269 | Silsden West Yorkshire | 8,392 | 30.1 | 11.6 | 8.2 | C |
| 270 | Shefford Bedfordshire | 7,317 | 27 | 14.9 | 28.1 | C |
| 271 | Prudhoe Northumberland | 10,285 | 28.4 | 13.6 | 9.1 | C |
| 272 | Netley Hampshire | 6,309 | 29.4 | 12.7 | 6.2 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 430 | 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 Silsden, and others in West Yorkshire.
Crime in Silsden 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 11 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 6 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 Silsden’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 23 collisions with injuries inside Silsden in five years. 10 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 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 Silsden is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, Silsden had 23.8 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 Silsden’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Silsden
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silsden | 8,392 | 30.1 | 11.6 | C |
| Steeton | 5,019 | 44.5 | 12.4 | D |
| Cross Hills | 4,809 | 20.2 | 9.4 | B |
| Sutton-in-Craven | 2,719 | 21.8 | 9.8 | B− |
| Low Bradley | 1,203 | 6.7 | 3.1 | A+ |
| Addingham | 3,247 | 13.2 | 8.9 | A− |
| Keighley | 48,754 | 70.7 | 24.3 | D− |
| East Morton | 1,227 | 10.9 | 7.3 | A |
Silsden records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Steeton and Keighley record more. Cross Hills, 2.3 miles away, records 20.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Silsden’s 30.1.
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 Silsden 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 Silsden
Is Silsden safe?
Police recorded 30.1 violent and sexual offences and 11.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Silsden’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 32% of UK towns. Among 430 UK towns of 6,000 to 11,000 people, Silsden is 269th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Silsden?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft fell 24% and anti-social behaviour rose 112%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Silsden?
Violence & sexual offences: 264 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (35) and burglary (33), with 89 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Silsden compare with Keighley?
Keighley records 70.7 violent and sexual offences and 24.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Silsden’s 30.1 and 11.6, 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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