Top 50Lowest crime

The 50 safest towns and cities in the UK

Moira, Eden and Haxby have the lowest crime of 989 UK towns and cities we can compare, measured by how serious the crime recorded around their centre is per resident.

See also: towns with the highest crime, or every town in the A to Z.

Towns and cities with the lowest crime

Rank	Town	Council	Safety (out of 10)	Crime vs England and Wales
1	Moira	Lisburn and Castlereagh	10	0.3×
2	Eden	Mid and East Antrim	10	0.3×
3	Haxby	York	10	0.3×
4	Greenisland	Mid and East Antrim	10	0.3×
5	Bovey Tracey	Teignbridge	10	0.3×
6	Budleigh Salterton	East Devon	10	0.3×
7	Verwood	Dorset	9	0.3×
8	Kesgrave	East Suffolk	9	0.3×
9	Comber	Ards and North Down	9	0.4×
10	Northam	Torridge	9	0.4×
11	Heathfield	Wealden	9	0.4×
12	Conlig	Ards and North Down	9	0.4×
13	Southwell	Newark and Sherwood	9	0.4×
14	Donaghadee	Ards and North Down	9	0.4×
15	Poynton	Cheshire East	9	0.4×
16	Carryduff	Lisburn and Castlereagh	9	0.4×
17	Heswall	Wirral	9	0.4×
18	Nailsea	North Somerset	9	0.4×
19	Crowborough	Wealden	9	0.4×
20	Steyning	Horsham	9	0.4×
21	Ballyclare	Antrim and Newtownabbey	9	0.4×
22	Malmesbury	Wiltshire	9	0.4×
23	Seaton	East Devon	9	0.4×
24	Garstang	Wyre	9	0.4×
25	Stotfold	Central Bedfordshire	9	0.4×
26	Ampthill	Central Bedfordshire	9	0.4×
27	Wotton-under-Edge	Stroud	9	0.4×
28	Wixams	Bedford	9	0.4×
29	Monkstown	Antrim and Newtownabbey	9	0.4×
30	Olney	Milton Keynes	9	0.4×
31	Sidmouth	East Devon	8	0.4×
32	Crowthorne	Bracknell Forest	8	0.4×
33	Ferndown	Dorset	8	0.4×
34	Ivybridge	South Hams	8	0.4×
35	Sandhurst	Bracknell Forest	8	0.4×
36	Dromore	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	8	0.4×
37	New Alresford	Winchester	8	0.4×
38	Brackley	West Northamptonshire	8	0.4×
39	Ottery St Mary	East Devon	8	0.4×
40	Midhurst	Chichester	8	0.4×
41	Pocklington	East Riding of Yorkshire	8	0.4×
42	Mossley	Antrim and Newtownabbey	8	0.5×
43	Llantwit Major	Vale of Glamorgan	8	0.5×
44	Woburn Sands	Central Bedfordshire	8	0.5×
45	Market Deeping	South Kesteven	8	0.5×
46	Dronfield	North East Derbyshire	8	0.5×
47	Bingham	Rushcliffe	8	0.5×
48	Woodley	Wokingham	8	0.5×
49	Bradford on Avon	Wiltshire	8	0.5×
50	Yateley	Hart	8	0.5×

Crime vs England and Wales: 1.0× is the average; 0.5× is half as much crime, weighted by severity, per resident.

How the ranking works: crime recorded by the police (police.uk data to August 2026) within 1.5 km of a town's centre or 3 km of a city's, each crime weighted by the ONS Crime Severity Score (a burglary counts for more than a shoplifting, anti-social behaviour not at all) per resident a year in that circle: the same figure and Safety score each town's page shows. Left out: circles with fewer than 5,000 residents (a few crimes would swing them), circles that are mostly a busy town centre (shoppers and visitors, few residents), and places whose police data stopped years ago (Greater Manchester Police has published none since 2019). Scotland is not ranked: it has no Safety score yet, as Police Scotland does not publish crime by street.

Council areas with the lowest crime

Rank	Council	Nation	Safety (out of 10)	Crime vs England and Wales
1	Isles of Scilly	England	10	0.3×
2	Mid Ulster	Northern Ireland	9	0.4×
3	South Hams	England	9	0.4×
4	West Devon	England	8	0.4×
5	Fermanagh and Omagh	Northern Ireland	8	0.4×
6	Ards and North Down	Northern Ireland	8	0.5×
7	Wokingham	England	8	0.5×
8	East Devon	England	8	0.5×
9	Wealden	England	8	0.5×
10	Rutland	England	8	0.5×
11	Waverley	England	8	0.5×
12	North Kesteven	England	8	0.5×
13	Ribble Valley	England	8	0.5×
14	Broadland	England	8	0.5×
15	Rushcliffe	England	8	0.5×
16	Lisburn and Castlereagh	Northern Ireland	8	0.5×
17	Torridge	England	8	0.5×
18	Hart	England	8	0.5×
19	Mid Suffolk	England	8	0.5×
20	Vale of White Horse	England	8	0.5×

The whole council area, every neighbourhood in it; Scotland and councils whose police data stopped years ago are left out.