North Yorkshire Crime Statistics
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The overall crime rate in North Yorkshire as of April 2026 is 69 crimes per 1,000 people, and the most common crimes are violence and sexual offences, with reports coming from roughly every 30 out of 1,000 daytime population.
Comparing North Yorkshire's larger towns and cities, and using Crime Risk Scores - which are calculated by taking severity of each crime type into account - Middlesbrough is the most dangerous. The next most dangerous is Redcar, and Thornaby comes in as third most dangerous. There are safer parts of North Yorkshire, identified using the same Crime Risk measurement, starting with Harrogate which ranks as the safest area in North Yorkshire, followed up by York in second place, and Scarborough in third place.
North Yorkshire Crime Map
Incidents mapped in North Yorkshire represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to North Yorkshire's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around North Yorkshire up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of North Yorkshire's 56,926 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
North Yorkshire • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within North Yorkshire has a crime risk score of 443. This is based on analysis of 56,926 nearby areas within North Yorkshire, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in North Yorkshire's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in North Yorkshire, crime risk scores are typically around 443, while in Yorkshire and The Humber they are average 557.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 427 (551 for Yorkshire and The Humber), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 423 (Yorkshire and The Humber 551).
Trends in Crime Risk
North Yorkshire
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates an increase of 6% in North Yorkshire's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in North Yorkshire's crime risk score is down by 0.53%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
Over the last year, North Yorkshire's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 2.9%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
North Yorkshire
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
North Yorkshire • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences have a crime rate of 7.97 reports per 1,000 people in North Yorkshire, which is 1.27 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 10,539 crime reports logged by North Yorkshire Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, North Yorkshire Police recorded 10,906 reports of Shoplifting in North Yorkshire, resulting in a crime rate of 8.26 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.16.
The crime rate for Burglary is 1.01 times the national average at 3.17 reports per 1,000. This is from 4,190 crime reports reported to North Yorkshire Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
North Yorkshire
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Robbery offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.90 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 0.56 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 61% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.00 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 0.86 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 16% over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.24 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 1.27 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 2.4% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
North Yorkshire
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.96 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 1.17 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 18% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.51 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 0.64 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 20% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.78 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.00 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 22% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
North Yorkshire • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
North Yorkshire | Yorkshire and The Humber | North Yorkshire Police | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 25,539 | 19.31 | 1.37 | 77,875 | 12.35 | 0.87 | 15,081 | 16.18 | 1.15 |
| Bicycle Theft | 991 | 0.75 | 1.03 | 4,306 | 0.68 | 0.93 | 714 | 0.77 | 1.05 |
| Burglary | 4,190 | 3.17 | 1.01 | 27,843 | 4.41 | 1.41 | 2,040 | 2.19 | 0.70 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 10,539 | 7.97 | 1.27 | 47,570 | 7.55 | 1.20 | 4,641 | 5.00 | 0.80 |
| Drugs | 3,416 | 2.57 | 0.83 | 19,757 | 3.14 | 1.02 | 1,659 | 1.79 | 0.58 |
| Other Crime | 2,687 | 2.02 | 1.09 | 18,290 | 2.91 | 1.57 | 1,019 | 1.09 | 0.59 |
| Other Theft | 5,582 | 4.24 | 0.75 | 36,443 | 5.78 | 1.02 | 3,154 | 3.39 | 0.60 |
| Possession of Weapons | 979 | 0.74 | 0.87 | 5,827 | 0.93 | 1.09 | 528 | 0.57 | 0.67 |
| Public Order | 6,911 | 5.23 | 0.90 | 47,514 | 7.55 | 1.30 | 3,162 | 3.38 | 0.58 |
| Robbery | 1,293 | 0.97 | 0.82 | 7,156 | 1.13 | 0.96 | 412 | 0.46 | 0.39 |
| Shoplifting | 10,906 | 8.26 | 1.16 | 48,695 | 7.71 | 1.08 | 5,019 | 5.38 | 0.75 |
| Theft From the Person | 327 | 0.26 | 0.17 | 3,568 | 0.57 | 0.37 | 161 | 0.16 | 0.10 |
| Vehicle Crime | 3,498 | 2.65 | 0.62 | 30,637 | 4.87 | 1.13 | 1,518 | 1.62 | 0.38 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 39,884 | 30.16 | 0.99 | 239,898 | 38.04 | 1.25 | 21,620 | 23.20 | 0.76 |
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Total Crime by Year
North Yorkshire | Yorkshire and The Humber | North Yorkshire Police | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 91,203 | 68.99 | 0.96 | 537,504 | 85.27 | 1.18 | 45,647 | 49.00 | 0.68 |
| 2025 | 88,823 | 67.87 | 0.92 | 553,826 | 88.44 | 1.19 | 46,190 | 50.07 | 0.68 |
| 2024 | 94,593 | 73.01 | 0.97 | 576,330 | 93.00 | 1.23 | 49,232 | 53.93 | 0.71 |
| 2023 | 102,456 | 79.98 | 1.01 | 611,034 | 99.55 | 1.26 | 51,641 | 57.10 | 0.72 |
| 2022 | 94,767 | 75.10 | 0.98 | 574,808 | 94.84 | 1.23 | 48,111 | 53.87 | 0.70 |
| 2021 | 79,483 | 63.67 | 0.93 | 501,180 | 83.02 | 1.21 | 41,153 | 46.48 | 0.68 |
| 2020 | 86,943 | 69.75 | 0.94 | 549,148 | 91.15 | 1.23 | 46,255 | 52.45 | 0.71 |
| 2019 | 86,912 | 69.81 | 0.92 | 568,297 | 94.66 | 1.24 | 46,595 | 52.88 | 0.69 |
| 2018 | 74,485 | 59.91 | 0.84 | 514,090 | 85.73 | 1.21 | 39,675 | 45.06 | 0.63 |
| 2017 | 68,352 | 54.99 | 0.86 | 456,998 | 76.46 | 1.20 | 37,388 | 42.50 | 0.66 |
| 2016 | 22,581 | 18.19 | 0.95 | 133,274 | 22.31 | 1.17 | 12,270 | 13.98 | 0.73 |
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The North Yorkshire Streets With The Highest Crime Counts
Each police crime report that CrimeRate receives has a street name automatically assigned to it by the police data team, and this table uses the coordinates to count crimes, rather than the street name alone. That way, if North Yorkshire has multiple identical street names - which is not unusual - they will be treated separately by CrimeRate's systems.
| Street | Crime Count | ||||||||
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| Prison Kirklevington | 985 | ||||||||
| Police Station Middlesbrough | 254 | ||||||||
| Charles Street Thornaby | 249 | ||||||||
| Wooler Street Scarborough | 71 | ||||||||
| Police Station York | 65 | ||||||||
| Shopping Mall Fulford | 55 | ||||||||
| Link Walk Eastfield | 54 | ||||||||
| Police Station Stainton and Thornton | 38 | ||||||||
| Windsor Crescent Whitby | 37 | ||||||||
| Larkswood Road Redcar | 35 | ||||||||
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Town and City Comparison
| Town / City | Crime Count | Crime Rate | CrimeRate Index | ||||||
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| Middlesbrough | 23,297 | 144.97 | 2.01 | ||||||
| Thornaby | 4,123 | 127.62 | 1.79 | ||||||
| Scarborough | 6,926 | 114.10 | 1.59 | ||||||
| Redcar | 3,869 | 95.44 | 1.34 | ||||||
| Selby | 1,623 | 84.40 | 1.21 | ||||||
| Loftus | 694 | 83.55 | 1.28 | ||||||
| Northallerton | 1,109 | 79.35 | 1.18 | ||||||
| Skelton and Brotton | 1,042 | 79.18 | 1.17 | ||||||
| York | 10,946 | 78.92 | 1.10 | ||||||
| Whitby | 1,085 | 78.60 | 1.15 | ||||||
| Guisborough | 1,480 | 74.37 | 1.07 | ||||||
| Saltburn, Marske and New Marske | 1,071 | 53.13 | 0.78 | ||||||
| Harrogate | 4,281 | 50.90 | 0.71 | ||||||
| Yarm | 433 | 47.77 | 0.77 | ||||||
| Skipton | 897 | 46.74 | 0.69 | ||||||
| Knaresborough | 813 | 46.50 | 0.68 | ||||||
| Newby and Scalby | 466 | 44.47 | 0.75 | ||||||
| Huntington | 534 | 43.30 | 0.68 | ||||||
| Ripon | 760 | 40.71 | 0.62 | ||||||
| Norton-on-Derwent | 354 | 40.44 | 0.71 | ||||||
| Richmond | 342 | 40.11 | 0.71 | ||||||
| Sherburn in Elmet | 380 | 39.55 | 0.64 | ||||||
| Ingleby Barwick | 802 | 33.71 | 0.52 | ||||||
| Haxby | 228 | 27.37 | 0.48 | ||||||
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