Crime and Safety in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
Kirkby-in-Ashfield is among the top 5 most dangerous medium-sized towns in Nottinghamshire, and is among the top 20 most dangerous overall out of Nottinghamshire's 236 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Kirkby-in-Ashfield in 2026 is 87 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Nottinghamshire's overall crime rate, coming in 11% higher than the Nottinghamshire rate of 78 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Kirkby-in-Ashfield is the 28th most dangerous medium-sized town, and the 501st most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
In April 2022, Kirkby-in-Ashfield had the worst crime rate in Nottinghamshire for robbery, with 6 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.28 per 1,000 daytime population. And in January 2026, Kirkby-in-Ashfield was the worst medium-sized town in Nottinghamshire for possession of weapons, with 5 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.23 per 1,000 daytime population. January 2026 was also a bad month for Kirkby-in-Ashfield residents, when it was Nottinghamshire's most dangerous medium-sized town for public order, recording 15 crimes at a rate of 0.70 per 1,000 daytime population.
The most common crimes in Kirkby-in-Ashfield are violence and sexual offences, with 744 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 35. This is 0.68% higher than 2025's figure of 739 offences and a difference of 0.22 from 2025's crime rate of 34. Kirkby-in-Ashfield's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 9 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 50% from 2025's figure of 6 crimes.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield 2026 Crime Scorecard
Top 5 Most Dangerous
Medium-Sized Towns, Nottinghamshire
24% higher, regional crime rate
East Midlands
21% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Kirkby-in-Ashfield is 24% higher than the East Midlands and 21% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield Crime Rate Over Time
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Kirkby-in-Ashfield Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Kirkby-in-Ashfield 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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Kirkby-in-Ashfield up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Kirkby-in-Ashfield's 464 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
Kirkby-in-Ashfield • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Kirkby-in-Ashfield has a crime risk score of 598. This is based on analysis of 464 nearby areas within Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, crime risk scores are typically around 598, while in Nottinghamshire they are average 469.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 665 (475 for Nottinghamshire), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 732 (Nottinghamshire 487).
Trends in Crime Risk
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield'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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Kirkby-in-Ashfield's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 0.48%, indicating that the risk profile is going down. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
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
Kirkby-in-Ashfield • 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 1.50 reports per 1,000 people in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, which is 2.11 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 32 crime reports logged by Nottinghamshire Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Nottinghamshire Police recorded 301 reports of Shoplifting in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, resulting in a crime rate of 14 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.96.
The crime rate for Criminal Damage and Arson is 1.54 times the national average at 9.66 reports per 1,000. This is from 208 crime reports reported to Nottinghamshire Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
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.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.33 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 2.72 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 51% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
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Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.90 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 1.00 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 10% over this timeframe.
Theft From the Person offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.42 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 0.38 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 11% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Kirkby-in-Ashfield • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield | Nottinghamshire | East Midlands | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 464 | 21.54 | 1.52 | 20,414 | 15.50 | 1.10 | 82,288 | 14.84 | 1.05 |
| Bicycle Theft | 9 | 0.44 | 0.92 | 1,121 | 0.86 | 1.18 | 3,605 | 0.66 | 0.90 |
| Burglary | 76 | 3.52 | 1.12 | 4,042 | 3.08 | 0.98 | 16,428 | 2.97 | 0.95 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 208 | 9.66 | 1.54 | 10,294 | 7.82 | 1.25 | 36,709 | 6.63 | 1.06 |
| Drugs | 62 | 2.89 | 0.94 | 3,806 | 2.90 | 0.94 | 14,102 | 2.53 | 0.82 |
| Other Crime | 99 | 4.58 | 2.48 | 4,302 | 3.29 | 1.78 | 11,549 | 2.09 | 1.13 |
| Other Theft | 111 | 5.14 | 0.90 | 7,726 | 5.87 | 1.03 | 28,010 | 5.03 | 0.88 |
| Possession of Weapons | 32 | 1.50 | 2.11 | 1,682 | 1.27 | 1.49 | 5,077 | 0.92 | 1.08 |
| Public Order | 126 | 5.83 | 1.01 | 7,248 | 5.50 | 0.95 | 33,621 | 6.06 | 1.04 |
| Robbery | 24 | 1.12 | 1.13 | 1,898 | 1.43 | 1.21 | 5,222 | 0.95 | 0.81 |
| Shoplifting | 301 | 13.97 | 1.96 | 14,082 | 10.71 | 1.50 | 41,773 | 7.51 | 1.05 |
| Theft From the Person | 10 | 0.49 | 0.46 | 1,067 | 0.81 | 0.52 | 2,834 | 0.51 | 0.33 |
| Vehicle Crime | 70 | 3.23 | 0.82 | 5,554 | 4.21 | 0.98 | 20,391 | 3.67 | 0.85 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 744 | 34.52 | 1.14 | 40,476 | 30.74 | 1.01 | 169,276 | 30.51 | 1.00 |
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Total Crime by Year
Kirkby-in-Ashfield | Nottinghamshire | East Midlands | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 1,872 | 86.89 | 1.23 | 103,298 | 78.49 | 1.09 | 388,597 | 70.04 | 0.97 |
| 2025 | 1,620 | 75.72 | 1.05 | 97,463 | 74.60 | 1.01 | 391,366 | 71.16 | 0.96 |
| 2024 | 1,851 | 86.79 | 1.17 | 100,090 | 77.50 | 1.03 | 401,136 | 73.81 | 0.98 |
| 2023 | 1,966 | 92.59 | 1.18 | 104,108 | 81.43 | 1.03 | 420,118 | 78.15 | 0.99 |
| 2022 | 1,660 | 78.60 | 1.05 | 100,566 | 79.70 | 1.04 | 404,389 | 76.27 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 1,565 | 74.02 | 1.10 | 87,058 | 69.37 | 1.01 | 361,494 | 68.61 | 1.00 |
| 2020 | 1,975 | 93.87 | 1.28 | 103,580 | 82.71 | 1.12 | 388,888 | 74.15 | 1.00 |
| 2019 | 1,878 | 89.71 | 1.20 | 107,727 | 86.11 | 1.13 | 375,243 | 71.88 | 0.94 |
| 2018 | 1,820 | 87.45 | 1.27 | 98,265 | 78.72 | 1.11 | 331,940 | 64.14 | 0.90 |
| 2017 | 1,656 | 80.11 | 1.30 | 83,249 | 66.98 | 1.05 | 297,381 | 58.03 | 0.91 |
| 2016 | 374 | 18.12 | 0.99 | 22,725 | 18.35 | 0.96 | 87,914 | 17.17 | 0.90 |
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Kirkby-in-Ashfield Compared to Nearby Medium-Sized Towns
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Medium-Sized Town | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark | 3,930 | 107.65 | 24% more dangerous |
| Worksop | 4,938 | 106.37 | 22% more dangerous |
| Sutton in Ashfield | 3,901 | 101.14 | 16% more dangerous |
| Kirkby-in-Ashfield | 1,872 | 86.89 | - |
| Hucknall | 2,899 | 78.04 | 10% safer |
| Beeston | 3,632 | 64.24 | 26% safer |
| Carlton | 2,733 | 52.25 | 40% safer |
| Arnold | 2,164 | 52.28 | 40% safer |
| West Bridgford | 2,053 | 49.66 | 43% safer |
Comparing Kirkby-in-Ashfield to the UK's Major Cities
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| City Name | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Cardiff | 79.55 | 8% safer |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 82.69 | 4.8% safer |
| Sheffield | 84.09 | 3.2% safer |
| Kirkby-in-Ashfield | 86.89 | - |
| Leicester | 97.87 | 13% more dangerous |
| Bristol | 104.64 | 20% more dangerous |
| Birmingham | 105.05 | 21% more dangerous |
| Liverpool | 106.48 | 23% more dangerous |
| Leeds | 107.10 | 23% more dangerous |
| Nottingham | 107.74 | 24% more dangerous |
| Westminster | 125.00 | 44% more dangerous |
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Offences In and Around Kirkby-in-Ashfield's Parks & Leisure Spaces
Limited to spaces in Kirkby-in-Ashfield 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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| Kirkby Leisure Centre | 42 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 69 |
| West Park | 5 | - | 3 | - | 7 | 7 |
| Diamond Avenue Allotments | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 0 |
| Kingsway Allotments | 3 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 3 |
| Kingsway Park | 36 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 |
| Kingsway Park | 52 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 47 | 60 |
| Sutton Road Allotments | - | - | 1 | - | 8 | 1 |
| Tichfield Park | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 |
| Harcourt Allotments | 17 | - | 3 | - | 21 | 10 |
| Hornbeam Park | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| Trampoline Park | 1 | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Larwood Park | 7 | - | 2 | - | 8 | 4 |
Recent Crimes in Kirkby-in-Ashfield
The 20 most recent crime reports in Kirkby-in-Ashfield.
| Date | Crime Type | Location | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Pine Close | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Sycamore Avenue | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Hollinwell Close | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Hollinwell Close | |
| April 2026 | Drugs | On or near Roseberry Street | |
| April 2026 | Drugs | On or near B6021 | |
| April 2026 | Drugs | On or near B6021 | |
| April 2026 | Other crime | On or near Princess Street | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Post Office Road | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near B6021 | |
| April 2026 | Shoplifting | On or near Parking Area | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Pine Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near B6021 | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Lilac Grove | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near B6021 | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Pine Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near B6021 | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near B6021 | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near B6021 | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Pine Close |
Methodology & Data Sources
Kirkby-in-Ashfield 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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield during June 2026 will typically become available in August 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.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield Data Points
For Kirkby-in-Ashfield, CrimeRate uses the geographic boundaries provided by The Office for National Statistics in the December 2022 release of their Built Up Areas dataset, using the BUA22CD column value E63001795.
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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield's daytime - or "workday" - population of 14,931 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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield