Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Thorp Arch records more crime per resident than almost every UK town
The typical town its size sees 16.6 cases of violent crime per 1,000 residents; Thorp Arch sees 96, or 171 in the 12 months to August 2026. Violence recorded locally climbed 7% in a year. Add to that, its Safety Grade is D−, on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. The yearly rates were 91.1 violent and sexual offences and 9.9 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 Thorp Arch
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% more violent crime per resident in Thorp Arch than in the year before; across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Thorp Arch: D− for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 541 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Thorp Arch 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, Thorp Arch runs highest on other crime (25.3 per 1,000 against 1.1), violence & sexual offences (96 per 1,000 against 16.6) and public order (6.2 per 1,000 against 2.4).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 171 | 96 | 16.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 45 | 25.3 | 1.1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 12 | 6.7 | 3.2 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 12 | 6.7 | 5.3 |
| Public order | not graded | 11 | 6.2 | 2.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 8 | 4.5 | 1.6 |
| Drugs | not graded | 7 | 3.9 | 0.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 5 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 5 | 2.8 | 1.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
How Thorp Arch compares with UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 84 | East Keswick West Yorkshire | 1,145 | 6.4 | 5.8 | 1.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 138 | Upperthong West Yorkshire | 1,094 | 10.7 | 3.4 | 0.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 174 | Bardsey West Yorkshire | 1,819 | 10.8 | 4 | 2.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 279 | Aberford West Yorkshire | 1,551 | 10.8 | 6.5 | 3 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 1202 | Wymington Bedfordshire | 1,000 | 65.3 | 31.7 | 7.3 | D− |
| 1203 | Sherford Devon | 1,311 | 81 | 16.9 | 12.2 | D− |
| 1204 | Lingdale North Yorkshire | 1,323 | 60 | 38.8 | 5 | D− |
| 1205 | Thorp Arch West Yorkshire | 1,782 | 91.1 | 9.9 | 3 | D− |
| 1206 | Aberaeron Dyfed | 1,040 | 79.3 | 25.2 | 9.4 | D− |
| 1207 | Kewstoke Somerset | 1,609 | 95.5 | 10.8 | 6.8 | D− |
| 1208 | Gelligaer Gwent | 1,436 | 85 | 26.9 | 13.5 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 1214 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | 1,928 | 259 | 64.7 | 57.2 | 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 Thorp Arch, and others in West Yorkshire.
Crime in Thorp Arch 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 3 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Thorp Arch has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 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 +3%).
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 69% of Thorp Arch’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 3% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (48% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 21% of violent and 8% 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. 170 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Thorp Arch’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 7 collisions with injuries inside Thorp Arch in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Thorp Arch is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Thorp Arch’s size at the median for UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people would see about 1 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Thorp Arch had 1.
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 Thorp Arch’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Thorp Arch
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorp Arch | 1,782 | 91.1 | 9.9 | D− |
| Boston Spa | 6,358 | 20.1 | 6.4 | B+ |
| Wetherby | 11,711 | 39.9 | 9.5 | C− |
| Bramham | 1,764 | 13.4 | 6.8 | A− |
| Tadcaster | 6,339 | 21.8 | 10.3 | B− |
| Collingham | 2,362 | 15.1 | 7.5 | A− |
| Tockwith | 1,788 | 25.5 | 11.2 | C+ |
| Bardsey | 1,819 | 10.8 | 4 | A |
Thorp Arch records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Boston Spa, 1.5 miles away, records 20.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Thorp Arch’s 91.1.
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 Thorp Arch 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 Thorp Arch
Is Thorp Arch safe?
Police recorded 91.1 violent and sexual offences and 9.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Thorp Arch’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: behind almost every UK town. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Thorp Arch has less crime per resident than 1%.
Is crime going up in Thorp Arch?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 67%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour rose 50%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Thorp Arch?
Violence & sexual offences: 171 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other crime (45) and criminal damage & arson (12), with 12 reports of anti-social behaviour.
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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