Photo: Alan Marriott · CC BY 2.5Per resident, Redditch records more crime than four in five UK towns
For its size, it sits below 71% of the 207 UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more on crime per resident. Recorded violence rose 11% in a year. On the record of crimes police recorded inside Redditch’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it takes C− for safety: #18 of 22 in Worcestershire. Police counts work out at 37.7 violent and sexual offences and 14.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Redditch
One ward carries much of the rate
Abbey ward recorded 1,790 of Redditch’s 9,223 violent and sexual offences in three years: 90.5 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Redditch the figure is 33. Where in Redditch ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 11% more violent crime per resident in Redditch 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 fell 17% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 87 UK towns and cities of 57,000 to 110,000 people, Redditch has the 24th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Paignton, Corby and Ashford, higher than Tamworth, Aylesbury and Huyton with Roby. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 15% of Redditch’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 19% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Redditch: C− for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 12,793 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Redditch 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
Vehicle crime and drugs sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 3,153 | 38.6 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 962 | 11.8 | 17.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 737 | 9 | 10.3 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 546 | 6.7 | 7.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 463 | 5.7 | 7.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 420 | 5.1 | 6.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 267 | 3.3 | 4.9 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 260 | 3.2 | 3.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 175 | 2.1 | 2.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 161 | 2 | 3.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 100 | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 89 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 47 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 28 | 0.3 | 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.
Lowest recorded crime in Crabbs Cross, West and Headless Cross and Oakenshaw; highest in Abbey
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crabbs Cross | 5,574 | 14.3 | 5.7 | |
| West | 6,352 | 14.1 | 7.8 | |
| Headless Cross and Oakenshaw | 8,362 | 26.4 | 10.2 | |
| Astwood Bank and Feckenham | 1,704 | 24.3 | 14.1 | |
| Matchborough | 6,120 | 26 | 14.9 | |
| Lodge Park | 5,578 | 30.7 | 13.4 | |
| Winyates | 8,243 | 32.1 | 18.9 | |
| Church Hill | 7,934 | 38.7 | 17.1 | |
| Batchley & Brockhill | 8,920 | 43.5 | 14.8 | |
| Greenlands | 9,780 | 43.3 | 15.3 | |
| Central | 6,471 | 51.3 | 17.7 | |
| Abbey | 6,596 | 90.5 | 21.9 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 1,579 | 34% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 795 | 49% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 601 | 65% shoplifting & theft |
| Hospitals | 353 | 47% violent |
| Petrol stations | 195 | 61% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 97 | 34% violent |
| Nightclubs | 40 | 38% violent |
| Bus and coach stations | 26 | 46% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Abbey records 2.7× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Redditch. 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 Redditch. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Redditch’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Of 87 towns its size, Redditch is 24th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 21 | Tamworth Staffordshire | 76,074 | 36.8 | 14.7 | 13.4 | C− |
| 22 | Aylesbury Buckinghamshire | 87,966 | 39.9 | 11.9 | 18.1 | C− |
| 23 | Huyton with Roby Merseyside | 59,844 | 38.8 | 13.3 | 7.6 | C− |
| 24 | Redditch Worcestershire | 81,634 | 37.7 | 14.6 | 14.9 | C− |
| 25 | Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire | 76,511 | 39.5 | 13.3 | 14.5 | C− |
| 26 | Hereford Herefordshire | 60,471 | 41.7 | 11.1 | 17.4 | C− |
| 27 | Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire | 95,995 | 36.3 | 17.1 | 19.9 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 42 | Kidderminster Worcestershire | 57,567 | 40.2 | 18.5 | 20.5 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 50 | Worcester Worcestershire | 105,439 | 44.8 | 18.2 | 22 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 87 | Doncaster South Yorkshire | 87,440 | 72.6 | 38.2 | 43.3 | 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 Redditch, and others in Worcestershire.
How crime in Redditch 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 +11% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -17% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +6% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -17% (towns its size -2%).
Crime in Redditch 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 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 15 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police in Redditch identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 63% of Redditch’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 10% 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. 4,058 crimes.
1 in 7 Redditch residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
35% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 19% 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.
Redditch’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.
Four people died in collisions on Redditch’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 254 collisions with injuries inside Redditch in five years, in which four people died. 86 people were killed or seriously injured: 20 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 Redditch’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Redditch’s own rate (1.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Redditch had 21.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 23% 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 Redditch’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Redditch
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redditch | 81,634 | 37.7 | 14.6 | C− |
| Studley | 6,039 | 25.3 | 12.9 | C+ |
| Astwood Bank | 3,248 | 11.2 | 5.2 | A |
| Alvechurch | 3,412 | 17.3 | 11 | B |
| Blackwell | 1,209 | 8.8 | 9.1 | A |
| Barnt Green | 3,821 | 15.1 | 14.3 | B |
| Wythall | 2,077 | 11.3 | 15.1 | B+ |
| Bromsgrove | 34,759 | 30.9 | 10.8 | C |
Redditch records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Studley, 2.4 miles away, records 25.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Redditch’s 37.7.
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
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 353 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Redditch’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- 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 Redditch 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 Redditch
Is Redditch safe?
Police recorded 37.7 violent and sexual offences and 14.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Redditch’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 19% of UK towns. Among 87 UK towns of 57,000 to 110,000 people, Redditch is 24th from the least crime. 15% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Redditch?
By council ward, Crabbs Cross, West and Headless Cross and Oakenshaw record the least violent and household crime per resident: 14.3, 14.1 and 26.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 90.5 in Abbey.
Is crime going up in Redditch?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 11%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 17%, shoplifting and theft rose 6% and anti-social behaviour fell 17%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Redditch?
Violence & sexual offences: 3,153 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (737) and criminal damage & arson (546), with 962 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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