Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Evesham records robbery at 2.6 times the rate of a typical town its size
Overall, Evesham grades C− for safety (#18 of 22 in Worcestershire): more crime per resident than 81% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. In a usual year, 37.2 violent and sexual offences and 15.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are logged per 1,000 inhabitants. Violent crime barely moved in a year. It has more violent crime than 80% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 81%.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Evesham
More crime than many places its size
Of 220 UK towns of 20,000 to 38,000 people, Evesham has the 136th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Rothwell, Swadlincote and South Ockendon, higher than Epsom, Rushden and Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Evesham’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 4,442 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Evesham 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, Evesham runs highest on robbery (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.5), burglary (4.2 per 1,000 against 2.4) and drugs (3.3 per 1,000 against 1.9).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,028 | 36.4 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 437 | 15.5 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 218 | 7.7 | 6.1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 208 | 7.4 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 174 | 6.2 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 143 | 5.1 | 4.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 120 | 4.2 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 107 | 3.8 | 2.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 92 | 3.3 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 46 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 39 | 1.4 | 0.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 26 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 18 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 15 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
“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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Crime in Evesham 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 15 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 14 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
136th of 220: Evesham among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 70 | Great Malvern Worcestershire | 33,194 | 28.5 | 10.7 | 15.8 | C+ |
| 71 | Droitwich Spa Worcestershire | 26,413 | 28.3 | 11.1 | 17.1 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 86 | Bromsgrove Worcestershire | 34,759 | 30.9 | 10.8 | 12.9 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 90 | Stourport-on-Severn Worcestershire | 20,302 | 27.6 | 14.9 | 10.6 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 133 | Epsom Surrey | 35,857 | 34.7 | 17.2 | 18.1 | C− |
| 134 | Rushden Northamptonshire | 31,689 | 36.6 | 15.4 | 21.6 | C− |
| 135 | Kirkby-in-Ashfield Nottinghamshire | 21,262 | 35.7 | 16.4 | 19 | C− |
| 136 | Evesham Worcestershire | 28,256 | 37.2 | 15.3 | 17.4 | C− |
| 137 | Frome Somerset | 27,904 | 39.8 | 12.8 | 19.3 | C− |
| 138 | Spalding Lincolnshire | 30,552 | 39.7 | 13.4 | 15 | C− |
| 139 | Ballymena Mid and East Antrim | 31,205 | 37.9 | 15.2 | 15 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 220 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | 28,979 | 105 | 32.9 | 33.7 | 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 Evesham, and others in Worcestershire.
Lowest recorded crime in Badsey, Evesham South and Little Hampton; highest in Evesham North
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badsey | 567 | 15.3 | 4.1 | |
| Evesham South | 5,085 | 22.7 | 10.8 | |
| Little Hampton | 5,739 | 27.6 | 12.4 | |
| Great Hampton | 3,817 | 31.2 | 10.9 | |
| Bengeworth | 7,848 | 46.6 | 19.3 | |
| Evesham North | 5,200 | 53.7 | 20.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping areas | 630 | 52% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 400 | 30% anti-social behaviour |
| Supermarkets | 400 | 49% shoplifting & theft |
| Nightclubs | 251 | 53% violent |
| Petrol stations | 102 | 59% shoplifting & theft |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Evesham North records 1.6× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Evesham. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Evesham. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Evesham’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-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 +4% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +0% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -18% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -10% (towns its size -4%).
How Evesham’s neighbourhoods rank in England
23% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 16% 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.
Evesham’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.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 67% of Evesham’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 11% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (74% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 2% 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. 1,430 crimes.
Four people died in collisions on Evesham’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 86 collisions with injuries inside Evesham in five years, in which four people died (1 was a cyclist). 28 people were killed or seriously injured: 4 on foot and 4 on a bicycle.
That is more than is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Evesham’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Evesham’s own rate (2.8) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Evesham had 19.8 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
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 Evesham’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Evesham
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evesham | 28,256 | 37.2 | 15.3 | C− |
| Offenham | 1,507 | 12.4 | 8.9 | A− |
| Badsey | 2,722 | 16.8 | 8.5 | B+ |
| Bretforton | 1,190 | 13.2 | 8.4 | A− |
| Harvington | 1,717 | 21.2 | 8.2 | B |
| Honeybourne | 3,104 | 13.4 | 5.5 | A |
| Broadway | 2,719 | 15.7 | 7.9 | B+ |
| Pershore | 8,207 | 35.5 | 18.2 | C− |
Evesham records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Pershore records more. Offenham, 2 miles away, records 12.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Evesham’s 37.2.
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 Evesham 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 Evesham
Is Evesham safe?
Police recorded 37.2 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 Evesham’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 19% of UK towns. Among 220 UK towns of 20,000 to 38,000 people, Evesham is 136th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Evesham?
By council ward, Badsey, Evesham South and Little Hampton record the least violent and household crime per resident: 15.3, 22.7 and 27.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 53.7 in Evesham North.
Is crime going up in Evesham?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft fell 18% and anti-social behaviour fell 10%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
Is Evesham town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 251 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 53% of them violent, and Evesham North ward records 53.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in July and was lowest in October.
What is the most common crime in Evesham?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,028 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (218) and criminal damage & arson (208), with 437 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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