What changed: the towns that moved most
The typical town's house prices moved +0.7% over the year and its recorded crime -0.9%. These are the places that did not.
Everything else on this site is a photograph. This page is the only one that will read differently next time the data lands, so it is where to look if you already know the numbers. Prices are compared type against type, so a town that happened to sell more flats does not show up as a crash, and crime is compared only where the local force filed all twelve months on both sides of the year.
House prices, biggest rises
| # | Town | Change | Median sale | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egremont Cumbria | +20.4% | £125,000 | 76 |
| 2 | Shevington Borough of Wigan | +20.0% | £245,000 | 69 |
| 3 | Bolton upon Dearne Barnsley | +19.2% | £140,000 | 85 |
| 4 | Bramhope City and Borough of Leeds | +18.5% | £525,000 | 52 |
| 5 | Sacriston County Durham | +18.2% | £155,000 | 54 |
| 6 | Accrington Lancashire | +18.1% | £137,500 | 344 |
| 7 | Horbury City and Borough of Wakefield | +17.8% | £220,000 | 122 |
| 8 | Godalming Surrey | +17.0% | £540,000 | 170 |
| 9 | Rhuddlan Denbighshire | +16.9% | £240,000 | 56 |
| 10 | Lakenheath Suffolk | +16.8% | £260,000 | 51 |
| 11 | Mountain Ash Rhondda Cynon Taf | +16.0% | £130,000 | 116 |
| 12 | Hexham Northumberland | +15.6% | £300,000 | 154 |
| 13 | Earby Lancashire | +15.0% | £165,000 | 58 |
| 14 | Blidworth Nottinghamshire | +15.0% | £177,000 | 60 |
| 15 | Ratby Leicestershire | +14.5% | £265,000 | 64 |
| 16 | Southwell Nottinghamshire | +14.3% | £390,000 | 101 |
| 17 | Bedwas Caerphilly County Borough | +14.0% | £272,500 | 100 |
| 18 | Long Melford Suffolk | +13.7% | £385,000 | 52 |
| 19 | Bedlington Northumberland | +13.7% | £170,500 | 171 |
| 20 | Maryport Cumbria | +13.6% | £140,000 | 83 |
House prices, biggest falls
| # | Town | Change | Median sale | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiveton Park Rotherham | -22.3% | £200,000 | 77 |
| 2 | Coxhoe County Durham | -20.2% | £135,000 | 59 |
| 3 | Duffield Derbyshire | -16.5% | £475,000 | 65 |
| 4 | Wadebridge Cornwall | -15.8% | £315,000 | 81 |
| 5 | Radlett Hertfordshire | -14.1% | £1,025,000 | 99 |
| 6 | Keresley Coventry | -13.9% | £225,000 | 58 |
| 7 | Silver End Essex | -13.6% | £321,275 | 66 |
| 8 | Holmfirth Kirklees | -13.0% | £288,950 | 55 |
| 9 | Snettisham Norfolk | -13.0% | £300,000 | 56 |
| 10 | Cookham Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead | -12.8% | £710,000 | 52 |
| 11 | Send Surrey | -12.5% | £615,000 | 67 |
| 12 | Hindhead Surrey | -12.1% | £515,000 | 97 |
| 13 | Rye East Sussex | -12.1% | £350,000 | 76 |
| 14 | Queniborough Leicestershire | -12.0% | £325,000 | 55 |
| 15 | City of Westminster Greater London | -11.8% | £805,000 | 1,483 |
| 16 | Thurston Suffolk | -11.4% | £295,000 | 72 |
| 17 | Tenby Pembrokeshire | -10.9% | £245,000 | 74 |
| 18 | Addingham Bradford | -10.6% | £367,500 | 66 |
| 19 | Langford Central Bedfordshire | -10.6% | £380,000 | 51 |
| 20 | Northam Devon | -10.3% | £295,000 | 67 |
Each figure is the mix-adjusted change across two non-overlapping twelve-month windows, so every property type is compared with itself before being combined. 1,307 towns qualify. Every town's median →
Recorded crime, biggest rises
| # | Town | Change | Offences /1,000 | Category that moved most |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brynmawr Blaenau Gwent | +36.5% | 163.0 | Anti-social behaviour +98% |
| 2 | Bingham Nottinghamshire | +35.0% | 67.9 | Violence and sexual offences +39% |
| 3 | Hailsham East Sussex | +31.9% | 80.4 | Anti-social behaviour +97% |
| 4 | Brandon County Durham | +30.9% | 113.5 | Criminal damage and arson +77% |
| 5 | Seaham County Durham | +30.1% | 130.4 | Shoplifting +134% |
| 6 | Mablethorpe Lincolnshire | +29.1% | 111.7 | Violence and sexual offences +27% |
| 7 | North Walsham Norfolk | +28.4% | 64.1 | Violence and sexual offences +27% |
| 8 | Cobham Surrey | +28.3% | 75.9 | Vehicle crime +90% |
| 9 | Eaglescliffe Stockton-on-Tees | +27.2% | 62.0 | Shoplifting +83% |
| 10 | Bircotes Nottinghamshire | +26.2% | 81.8 | Anti-social behaviour -6% |
| 11 | Ewell Surrey | +25.1% | 91.8 | Shoplifting +279% |
| 12 | Billericay Essex | +23.7% | 47.8 | Anti-social behaviour +48% |
| 13 | Newhaven East Sussex | +23.0% | 157.3 | Anti-social behaviour +74% |
| 14 | Kidsgrove Staffordshire | +22.9% | 88.3 | public_order +40% |
| 15 | Keynsham Bath and North East Somerset | +22.3% | 103.6 | Other theft +72% |
| 16 | Fakenham Norfolk | +22.1% | 81.5 | Violence and sexual offences +54% |
| 17 | Cheadle Staffordshire | +22.1% | 90.8 | public_order +52% |
| 18 | Driffield East Riding of Yorkshire | +21.4% | 73.0 | Criminal damage and arson +60% |
| 19 | Netley Hampshire | +20.4% | 99.3 | Anti-social behaviour +92% |
| 20 | Creswell Derbyshire | +20.4% | 132.5 | Anti-social behaviour +23% |
Recorded crime, biggest falls
| # | Town | Change | Offences /1,000 | Category that moved most |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alnwick Northumberland | -36.0% | 82.5 | Violence and sexual offences -49% |
| 2 | Shefford Central Bedfordshire | -27.7% | 83.0 | Shoplifting -58% |
| 3 | Rishton Lancashire | -26.1% | 99.5 | Anti-social behaviour -52% |
| 4 | Sandhurst Bracknell Forest | -25.5% | 36.7 | Anti-social behaviour -46% |
| 5 | South Elmsall City and Borough of Wakefield | -24.8% | 120.3 | Shoplifting -51% |
| 6 | Barnoldswick Lancashire | -23.8% | 53.9 | Anti-social behaviour -50% |
| 7 | Totton Hampshire | -22.4% | 64.9 | Shoplifting -58% |
| 8 | Hebburn South Tyneside | -21.2% | 72.4 | public_order -51% |
| 9 | Wantage Oxfordshire | -20.7% | 65.9 | Criminal damage and arson -36% |
| 10 | Ashington Northumberland | -20.6% | 126.2 | drugs -50% |
| 11 | Morpeth Northumberland | -20.6% | 94.9 | Other theft -47% |
| 12 | Bude Cornwall | -20.3% | 78.0 | Shoplifting -43% |
| 13 | Deal Kent | -19.9% | 61.3 | public_order -46% |
| 14 | Wetherby City and Borough of Leeds | -19.8% | 71.3 | Shoplifting -42% |
| 15 | Prudhoe Northumberland | -19.5% | 68.0 | Violence and sexual offences -36% |
| 16 | Ilkley Bradford | -19.4% | 50.6 | Anti-social behaviour -30% |
| 17 | Ormskirk Lancashire | -19.4% | 53.9 | Anti-social behaviour -44% |
| 18 | Whickham Gateshead | -19.2% | 91.7 | Criminal damage and arson -40% |
| 19 | Wallsend North Tyneside | -18.9% | 106.3 | drugs -35% |
| 20 | Great Harwood Lancashire | -18.4% | 100.0 | Anti-social behaviour -42% |
Changes in what was recorded, not in what happened. The category that moved most sits beside each town because the total hides the story: a rise driven by public order offences is a different thing from one driven by burglary. 821 towns qualify. Every town's rate → · Lowest violence and burglary →
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid and police-recorded street-level crime, both on ONS built-up-area boundaries. Greater Manchester and Gloucestershire constabularies do not publish to the national service, so their towns cannot appear in the crime tables. Scotland and Northern Ireland keep separate registers.
Common questions
What period does this compare?
House prices compare the twelve months to June 2026 with the twelve before them, and recorded crime the twelve months to July 2026 with the twelve before those. Neither pair overlaps, so these are year-on-year figures rather than two rolling windows sharing most of the same records.
Why do so few towns appear?
1,307 towns qualify for a price change and 821 for a crime change, out of thousands. A town needs 50+ sales with the property types compared covering most of them, and 500+ recorded offences in both years with its police force having filed all twelve months on both sides. Those floors are not relaxed to make this page livelier: below them a percentage says more about which houses happened to sell, or how many months a force filed, than about the town.
Does a rise in recorded crime mean a town got more dangerous?
Not on its own. These are changes in what was recorded, and a force changing how it logs a category, or a campaign encouraging people to report, moves the figure without anything changing on the street. That is why the category that moved most is named beside each town: a total that rose on public order offences is a different story from one that rose on burglary.
Is a town at the top of these tables a trend?
No. These are the tails of a distribution: the typical town's prices moved +0.7% and its recorded crime -0.9%, so almost nothing moved much. One year of movement in one town is a fact about that year, and it takes several before it is a direction.