Crime and Safety in Brackley
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
Brackley is the second safest small town in Northamptonshire, and is the 97th safest overall out of Northamptonshire's 261 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Brackley in 2026 is 28 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares favourably to Northamptonshire's overall crime rate, coming in 56% lower than the Northamptonshire rate of 64 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Brackley is the 110th safest small town, and the 4,535th safest location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
In April 2026, Brackley was the worst small town in Northamptonshire for public order, with 6 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.34 per 1,000 daytime population. December 2025 was also a bad month for Brackley residents, when it was Northamptonshire's most dangerous small town for theft from the person, recording 1 crime at a rate of 0.06 per 1,000 daytime population.
The most common crimes in Brackley are violence and sexual offences, with 234 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 13. This is 2.5% lower than 2025's figure of 240 offences and a difference of 0.34 from 2025's crime rate of 14. Brackley's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 0 offences recorded in 2026.
Brackley 2026 Crime Scorecard
Second Safest
Small Towns, Northamptonshire
60% lower, regional crime rate
East Midlands
61% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Brackley is 60% lower than the East Midlands and 61% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Brackley Crime Rate Over Time
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Brackley Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Brackley 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 Brackley's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Brackley up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Brackley's 358 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.
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Crime Risk Scores
Brackley • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Brackley has a crime risk score of 240. This is based on analysis of 358 nearby areas within Brackley, 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 Brackley's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Brackley, crime risk scores are typically around 240, while in Northamptonshire they are average 442.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 289 (429 for Northamptonshire), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 304 (Northamptonshire 422).
Trends in Crime Risk
Brackley
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.
No trend could be found in Brackley's crime risk scores over the last 10 years, and the trend may well be static.
The five-year trend may be static; no significant trend was identified in Brackley's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Brackley's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 34%, 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
Brackley
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
Brackley • 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.
Possession of Weapons offences have a crime rate of 0.29 reports per 1,000 people in Brackley, which is 1.38 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 5 crime reports logged by Northamptonshire Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Northamptonshire Police recorded 6 reports of Robbery in Brackley, resulting in a crime rate of 0.36 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 0.60.
The crime rate for Burglary is 0.58 times the national average at 1.65 reports per 1,000. This is from 29 crime reports reported to Northamptonshire Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Brackley
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.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Burglary offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Robbery offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Brackley
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.28 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.46 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 39% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.85 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.22 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 286% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.71 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.17 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 318% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Brackley • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
Brackley | Northamptonshire | East Midlands | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 124 | 7.00 | 0.50 | 16,213 | 18.20 | 1.29 | 82,288 | 14.84 | 1.05 |
| Bicycle Theft | - | - | - | 376 | 0.42 | 0.58 | 3,605 | 0.66 | 0.90 |
| Burglary | 29 | 1.65 | 0.58 | 2,664 | 3.01 | 0.96 | 16,428 | 2.97 | 0.95 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 30 | 1.72 | 0.33 | 4,602 | 5.19 | 0.83 | 36,709 | 6.63 | 1.06 |
| Drugs | 21 | 1.20 | 0.52 | 2,513 | 2.82 | 0.91 | 14,102 | 2.53 | 0.82 |
| Other Crime | 10 | 0.58 | 0.46 | 1,363 | 1.54 | 0.83 | 11,549 | 2.09 | 1.13 |
| Other Theft | 44 | 2.49 | 0.44 | 4,118 | 4.60 | 0.81 | 28,010 | 5.03 | 0.88 |
| Possession of Weapons | 5 | 0.29 | 1.38 | 1,013 | 1.14 | 1.34 | 5,077 | 0.92 | 1.08 |
| Public Order | 40 | 2.25 | 0.39 | 4,103 | 4.60 | 0.79 | 33,621 | 6.06 | 1.04 |
| Robbery | 6 | 0.36 | 0.60 | 1,114 | 1.25 | 1.06 | 5,222 | 0.95 | 0.81 |
| Shoplifting | 39 | 2.22 | 0.38 | 5,868 | 6.59 | 0.92 | 41,773 | 7.51 | 1.05 |
| Theft From the Person | 3 | 0.18 | 0.45 | 202 | 0.23 | 0.15 | 2,834 | 0.51 | 0.33 |
| Vehicle Crime | 35 | 1.98 | 0.46 | 3,628 | 4.08 | 0.95 | 20,391 | 3.67 | 0.85 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 234 | 13.22 | 0.43 | 25,332 | 28.45 | 0.94 | 169,276 | 30.51 | 1.00 |
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Total Crime by Year
Brackley | Northamptonshire | East Midlands | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 496 | 28.14 | 0.43 | 56,896 | 63.92 | 0.89 | 388,597 | 70.04 | 0.97 |
| 2025 | 570 | 32.30 | 0.49 | 59,808 | 67.74 | 0.92 | 391,366 | 71.16 | 0.96 |
| 2024 | 600 | 34.25 | 0.51 | 59,826 | 68.52 | 0.91 | 401,136 | 73.81 | 0.98 |
| 2023 | 642 | 37.17 | 0.51 | 64,169 | 74.24 | 0.94 | 420,118 | 78.15 | 0.99 |
| 2022 | 654 | 38.46 | 0.54 | 62,563 | 73.20 | 0.95 | 404,389 | 76.27 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 591 | 35.52 | 0.57 | 62,324 | 73.61 | 1.07 | 361,494 | 68.61 | 1.00 |
| 2020 | 590 | 36.35 | 0.53 | 61,660 | 73.35 | 0.99 | 388,888 | 74.15 | 1.00 |
| 2019 | 542 | 34.47 | 0.50 | 60,958 | 73.05 | 0.96 | 375,243 | 71.88 | 0.94 |
| 2018 | 534 | 35.25 | 0.57 | 54,751 | 66.53 | 0.94 | 331,940 | 64.14 | 0.90 |
| 2017 | 522 | 35.85 | 0.65 | 54,549 | 67.50 | 1.06 | 297,381 | 58.03 | 0.91 |
| 2016 | 167 | 11.60 | 0.69 | 16,396 | 20.45 | 1.07 | 87,914 | 17.17 | 0.90 |
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Brackley Compared to Nearby Small Towns
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Small Town | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billing | 643 | 67.88 | 141% more dangerous |
| Higham Ferrers | 530 | 54.88 | 95% more dangerous |
| Rothwell | 501 | 50.43 | 79% more dangerous |
| Irthlingborough | 496 | 49.27 | 75% more dangerous |
| Desborough | 614 | 50.63 | 80% more dangerous |
| Raunds | 541 | 48.54 | 72% more dangerous |
| Duston | 846 | 49.75 | 77% more dangerous |
| Burton Latimer | 431 | 40.11 | 43% more dangerous |
| Wootton | 244 | 28.51 | 1.3% more dangerous |
| Towcester | 506 | 34.08 | 21% more dangerous |
| Brackley | 496 | 28.14 | - |
Comparing Brackley to the UK's Major Cities
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| City Name | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Brackley | 28.14 | - |
| Cardiff | 79.55 | 183% more dangerous |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 82.69 | 194% more dangerous |
| Sheffield | 84.09 | 199% more dangerous |
| Leicester | 97.87 | 248% more dangerous |
| Bristol | 104.64 | 272% more dangerous |
| Birmingham | 105.05 | 273% more dangerous |
| Liverpool | 106.48 | 278% more dangerous |
| Leeds | 107.10 | 281% more dangerous |
| Nottingham | 107.74 | 283% more dangerous |
| Westminster | 125.00 | 344% more dangerous |
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Offences In and Around Brackley's Parks & Leisure Spaces
Limited to spaces in Brackley that are named and have had crimes recorded within their boundaries in the 12 months to Apr 2026.
| Name | ASB | Drugs | Public Order | Robbery | VSO | All Others |
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| Brackley Leisure Centre | 13 | - | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 |
| Brackley Park | 3 | - | - | - | 6 | 3 |
Recent Crimes in Brackley
The 20 most recent crime reports in Brackley.
| Date | Crime Type | Location | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Leda Drive | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Manor Road | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Prices Way | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Thomas Crewe Close | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Banbury Road | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Blencowe Drive | |
| April 2026 | Burglary | On or near Hinton Road | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Pebble Lane | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Lark Rise | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Ellesmere Court | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Lark Rise | |
| April 2026 | Robbery | On or near Supermarket | |
| April 2026 | Shoplifting | On or near Supermarket | |
| April 2026 | Shoplifting | On or near Supermarket | |
| April 2026 | Shoplifting | On or near Supermarket | |
| April 2026 | Shoplifting | On or near Lark Rise | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Winston Crescent | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Badger Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Lark Rise | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Pebble Lane |
Methodology & Data Sources
Brackley Crime Report
Data Sources & Processing
Every month, CrimeRate processes crime reports from data.police.uk, the UK's official provider of open crime report data. Each crime report includes anonymised coordinates, most often "snapped" to the middle of the nearest street, or to the nearest major landmark. The reports also include the month and year the crime was reported, as well as the type of crime.
Data releases on data.police.uk happen once a month, with a two-month delay. This means that, for example, crimes reported in Brackley during July 2026 will typically become available in September 2026. The latest release is for Apr 2026 and was released in Jun 2026. To provide current and historical crime statistics, CrimeRate processed 61,669,232 crime reports for the latest release.
Brackley Data Points
For Brackley, CrimeRate uses the geographic boundaries provided by The Office for National Statistics in the December 2023 release of their Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas dataset, using the PARNCP23CD column value E04012823.
Due to the 2021 Census being conducted during a UK-wide Coronavirus lockdown, the daytime population figures released so far cannot be relied on for purposes such as comparing crime rates. Instead, CrimeRate uses Brackley's daytime - or "workday" - population of 12,174 from the ONS 2011 Census for calculations throughout the site.
All geographic boundaries use the full resolution - extent of the realm versions where provided to avoid missing crime reports near coastlines and rivers - the banks of the Thames in particular - that would otherwise not be included when using the clipped to the coastline datasets.
Calculating Crime Rates
CrimeRate locates the UK region, county, and town/city/village locality for each crime report, and calculates the crime rate by taking the sum of all crime reports, dividing it by the locality's daytime / "workday" population, and multiplying the result by 1,000 to get the crime rate per 1,000.
Crime Risk Score Calculations
CrimeRate calculates crime counts for local, nearby, and wider areas for every postcode in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The postcodes locations are deduplicated by a process that ensures distinct points are approximately 50 metres apart. This process removes the bias that would otherwise come from counting the same crimes several times in heavily populated areas.
Using a custom algorithm developed in-house, CrimeRate applies a crime severity weighting to each area's crime counts, based on the type of crime reported. This increases or decreases the crime count, or zeroes it out entirely, depending on the crime type. A separate crime severity rate is then calculated, standardised, and scaled to fit the crime risk score range of 1 to 1,000, with 1 being the lowest score, and 1,000 the highest.
Crime risk scores undergo further analysis per town, city, and village plus other areas including police forces and neighbourhoods. CrimeRate uses percentiles to work out the most common range of crime risk scores in each locality. This includes identifying the high and low bounds where approximately 68% of scores fall, and finding the median (50th percentile) for easy reference.
The crime types with a weight of zero are: Anti-Social Behaviour; Bicycle Theft; Other Crime; Other Theft; and Shoplifting. The highest weights to are assigned to Violence & Sexual Offences, and the lowest to Vehicle Crime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Crime in Brackley