Photo: Mat Fascione · CC BY-SA 2.0Kidderminster has more burglary, vehicle crime and damage per resident than 89% of UK towns
A Safety Grade of D follows from crimes police recorded inside Kidderminster’s built-up area over the years September 2023 to August 2026. Recorded violent and sexual offences ran at 40.2 per 1,000 residents a year, and burglary, vehicle crime and damage at 18.5. Violent crime was down 5% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Kidderminster
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 5% less violent crime per resident in Kidderminster than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 10% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 124 UK towns and cities of 40,000 to 78,000 people, Kidderminster has the 73rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Tynemouth, Rochester and Lancaster, higher than Widnes, Burton upon Trent and Sittingbourne. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
25% of Kidderminster’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 32% 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.
The D for Kidderminster, and how it is built
A firm grade. Built on 10,140 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Kidderminster against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Police in Kidderminster identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 59% of Kidderminster’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” (72% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% 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. 3,375 crimes.
Crime in Kidderminster 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 19 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 17 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Kidderminster runs highest on vehicle crime (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.9), possession of weapons (1.4 per 1,000 against 1.1) and criminal damage & arson (8.8 per 1,000 against 7.5). Robbery and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 2,115 | 36.7 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 797 | 13.8 | 17.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 595 | 10.3 | 10.3 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 504 | 8.8 | 7.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 422 | 7.3 | 4.9 |
| Public order | not graded | 394 | 6.8 | 7.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 339 | 5.9 | 6.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 191 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 187 | 3.2 | 3.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 116 | 2 | 2.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 78 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 65 | 1.1 | 1.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 33 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 21 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
“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 and cities of 50,000 or more.
25% of Kidderminster residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
32% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 25% 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.
Kidderminster’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.
How crime in Kidderminster has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent -5% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles +10% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft -20% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -24% (towns its size -2%).
Lowest recorded crime in Franche & Habberley North, Offmore & Comberton and Foley Park & Hoobrook; highest in Aggborough & Spennells
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franche & Habberley North | 9,789 | 30.6 | 13.7 | |
| Offmore & Comberton | 9,484 | 33.1 | 17.5 | |
| Foley Park & Hoobrook | 10,616 | 39.3 | 17.4 | |
| Blakebrook & Habberley South | 9,488 | 38.4 | 18.5 | |
| Broadwaters | 9,274 | 42.4 | 16.7 | |
| Aggborough & Spennells | 8,763 | 58.7 | 28 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping areas | 1,054 | 57% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 873 | 31% violent |
| Supermarkets | 541 | 59% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 452 | 75% shoplifting & theft |
| College and university buildings | 159 | 40% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 87 | 46% violent |
| Bus and coach stations | 63 | 35% shoplifting & theft |
| Hospitals | 36 | 47% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Aggborough & Spennells records 1.6× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Kidderminster. 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 Kidderminster. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Kidderminster’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Towns its size: Kidderminster comes 73rd of 124
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 70 | Widnes Cheshire | 59,938 | 45.3 | 13 | 12 | D |
| 71 | Burton upon Trent Staffordshire | 76,264 | 45.2 | 13.4 | 14.6 | D |
| 72 | Sittingbourne Kent | 54,385 | 41.3 | 17.5 | 20.8 | D |
| 73 | Kidderminster Worcestershire | 57,567 | 40.2 | 18.5 | 20.5 | D |
| 74 | Guildford Surrey | 77,870 | 44.3 | 15.2 | 23.7 | D |
| 75 | Worksop Nottinghamshire | 43,435 | 40.2 | 20.9 | 32.9 | D |
| 76 | Runcorn Cheshire | 61,641 | 48.6 | 12.6 | 10.2 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 124 | Bridgwater Somerset | 47,846 | 76.8 | 18.9 | 29.3 | 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 Kidderminster, and others in Worcestershire.
One person died in collisions on Kidderminster’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 264 collisions with injuries inside Kidderminster in five years, in which one person died. 75 people were killed or seriously injured: 16 on foot and 16 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more: at their median rate (1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Kidderminster’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Kidderminster’s own rate (0.4) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Kidderminster had 26.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 21% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
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 Kidderminster’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Kidderminster
Kidderminster records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Wolverley, 1.9 miles away, records 21.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Kidderminster’s 40.2.
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 Kidderminster 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 Kidderminster
Is Kidderminster safe?
Police recorded 40.2 violent and sexual offences and 18.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Kidderminster’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 13% of UK towns. Among 124 UK towns of 40,000 to 78,000 people, Kidderminster is 73rd from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Kidderminster?
By council ward, Franche & Habberley North, Offmore & Comberton and Foley Park & Hoobrook record the least violent and household crime per resident: 30.6, 33.1 and 39.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 58.7 in Aggborough & Spennells.
Is crime going up in Kidderminster?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 5%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 10%, shoplifting and theft fell 20% and anti-social behaviour fell 24%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Kidderminster?
Violence & sexual offences: 2,115 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (595) and criminal damage & arson (504), with 797 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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