How Safe is Your City?
- The tables on this page list crime levels in university cities and towns with two or more universities in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
- We also list crime statistics by university for England and Wales, and separately for London; and by region.
- See notes at the foot of the tables for information about compilation of data.
University city crime statistics – England and Wales
| City/town | Burglary* | Violence** | Robbery | Grand Total |
Rank 2012 |
Rank 2011 |
| Bath | 3.0 | 5.7 | 0.4 | 9.1 | 1 | 1 |
| Birmingham | 7.2 | 11.6 | 4.1 | 22.9 | 21 | 15 |
| Brighton | 4.5 | 7.6 | 1.5 | 13.6 | 6 | 6 |
| Bristol | 9.8 | 10.4 | 2.9 | 23.1 | 22 | 18 |
| Cambridge | 7.6 | 7.6 | 1.6 | 16.8 | 14 | 7 |
| Canterbury | 2.7 | 6.3 | 0.5 | 9.5 | 2 | 2 |
| Cardiff | 6.0 | 8.6 | 1.1 | 15.7 | 12 | 10 |
| Coventry | 7.4 | 11.2 | 2.2 | 20.8 | 17 | 13 |
| Lancaster | 2.5 | 7.7 | 0.4 | 10.6 | 3 | 3 |
| Leeds | 12.0 | 7.5 | 1.7 | 21.2 | 18 | 12 |
| Leicester | 8.6 | 11.7 | 2.6 | 22.9 | 20 | 17 |
| Liverpool | 9.1 | 7.7 | 2.3 | 19.1 | 16 | 14 |
| Manchester | 13.2 | 11.5 | 5.1 | 29.8 | 23 | 19 |
| Newcastle | 5.2 | 8.6 | 0.9 | 14.7 | 8 | 9 |
| Nottingham | 11.7 | 15.1 | 4.3 | 31.0 | 24 | 20 |
| Oxford | 5.2 | 8.3 | 1.7 | 15.3 | 9 | 8 |
| Sheffield | 6.9 | 7.5 | 1.2 | 15.6 | 11 | 11 |
| Southampton | 4.9 | 14.6 | 1.8 | 21.4 | 19 | 16 |
| Swansea | 4.7 | 7.3 | 0.4 | 12.4 | 5 | 5 |
| York | 4.4 | 6.7 | 0.5 | 11.6 | 4 | 4 |
| Bournemouth | 5.2 | 12.9 | 0.9 | 19.0 | 15 | –– |
| Plymouth | 4.0 | 10.7 | 0.7 | 15.4 | 10 | –– |
| Norwich | 3.9 | 8.9 | 1.1 | 13.9 | 7 | –– |
| Lincoln | 6.0 | 9.8 | 0.9 | 16.8 | 13 | –– |
University city crime statistics – Northern Ireland
| City/town | Burglary* | Violence** | Robbery | Grand Total |
Rank 2012 |
Rank 2011 |
| Belfast | 8.6 | 14.9 | 1.3 | 24.8 | –– | –– |
University city crime statistics – Scotland
| City/town | Burglary* | Violence** | Robbery | Grand Total |
Rank 2012 |
Rank 2011 |
| Edinburgh | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 6.4 | 3 | 3 |
| Dundee | 3.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 5.5 | 2 | 2 |
| Aberdeen | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 4.7 | 1 | 1 |
| Glasgow | 3.6 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 7.9 | 4 | 4 |
Compilation of data
- Burglary = Burglary in a dwelling*;
- Violence = Violence against the person – with injury**;
- Robbery = Robbery of personal property.
English, Welsh & Northern Irish cities/towns
- 3 year rolling averages per 1,000 population 2008–10;
- **Serious violent crime in Northern Ireland.
Scottish cities
- 3 year figures per 1,000 population 2008–10.
- *Domestic housebreaking in Scotland.
- **Serious assault in Scotland.
- Please note that crime is recorded in a different way in Scotland so accurate comparisons are not appropriate between Scotland and elsewhere in the UK.
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