Is TS1 a safe place to live?

TS1 scores 1 out of 10 for safety (high crime), compared with every postcode district in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Crime severity is 2.3 times the Middlesbrough average.

Is crime going up or down in TS1?

Down 25% over 5 years, from 7,568 recorded crimes a year to 5,682.

How does crime in TS1 compare with Middlesbrough?

Crime severity in TS1 is 2.3 times the Middlesbrough average.

How many burglaries are solved in TS1?

Of 241 burglaries reported in TS1 between September 2024 and August 2025, 17% led to someone being charged or summonsed and 61% were closed with no suspect identified.

TS1Postcode district

TS1 crime rate and crime map

Recorded crime in TS1 is 2.3 times the Middlesbrough average and 4.3 times the England and Wales average. Over 5 years it has fallen 25%. Most of the harm comes from violence and sexual offences (assaults, harassment, sexual offences). Police data to August 2026.

Middlesbrough. 18,739 residents in 11 neighbourhoods.

Safety in the UK: 1/10High crime
Safety in the world: 3/10Above average crime
Living: 8.3/10Good
5-year change: −25%fewer crimes
vs the council: 2.3×the Middlesbrough average

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Safety and Living

Safety

What it measures. How serious the crime recorded here is, not how much of it there is. Each recorded crime is weighted by the typical sentence for that kind of offence (the Office for National Statistics Crime Severity Score), so a robbery counts about 76 times a shoplifting offence. The total per resident is ranked against every neighbourhood. 10 means among the safest tenth.

Data. Street-level crime from data.police.uk, September 2016 to August 2026. Weights: ONS Crime Severity Score, year ending March 2025.

Anti-social behaviour is not a crime and has no weight, so it is left out of the score. It is shown on its own line.
The weights come from sentences in 2015-2019 and one weight covers a whole police.uk category: violence includes both minor assaults and rape, and the data does not say which. A town with more serious cases than the national mix is under-scored.
Some forces have missing months (Greater Manchester published nothing after June 2019). We use the months that exist and say so on the page.
A neighbourhood's score is blended with the neighbourhoods around it, because police.uk records each crime at an approximate location, often the middle of a street that sits on a boundary. Three quarters is its own rate, one quarter the average of the neighbourhoods it touches, weighted by residents. Crimes recorded on a map point within 30 m of a neighbourhood boundary are shared equally between the neighbourhoods on each side, because the point usually sits on the boundary road itself. Where the map shows a neighbourhood's score, its own score is shown as well when it differs.
Busy city and town centres are not scored: few people live there and many visit, so crime per resident would mislead.
It counts crimes that were reported and recorded, not every crime. In Scotland there is no Safety score yet; Living covers it.
On the map you can filter by crime type. The filter changes the crime figures, the Safety score and the map colours, and compares with the national figure for the same types.
Crime Rates Map is a guide, not advice. Visit the area before you decide.

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Crime severity: 2.3× the Middlesbrough average (4.3× the England and Wales average)

Crime only, by how serious it is. Compared with every postcode district. Higher is safer.

Living

Based on schools, transport, health, supermarkets, weighted by importance. Crime is not part of it. Higher is better.

Neighbourhoods by Safety

Tested: 79% of scores were within 1 point of what happened next. How we test

1 = least safe, 10 = safest. Grey: no score. Select a neighbourhood to open it on the map.

2 neighbourhoods have no population figure, so they are not scored.

Crime over 5 years

Down 25% in 5 years Recorded crimes in TS1, anti-social behaviour left out.

What is recorded

Crime severity: 2.3× the Middlesbrough average (4.3× the England and Wales average). 340 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year.

Violence and sexual offences (assaults, harassment, sexual offences): 55% of the harm here
Burglary: 15% of the harm here
Robbery: 12% of the harm here

Anti-social behaviour: 105 incidents per 1,000 residents a year, not scored. Not a crime, so it is not part of the Safety score.

Shops, transport, schools and health

Distances are straight-line, not walking routes. Scores use fixed distance bands, so they do not depend on other districts. Higher is better.

Supermarkets

Good accessScore 8 out of 10

Typical distance to a large supermarket: 1.1 km.
Sainsburys Middlesbrough (Sainsburys), 800 m from the district centre
Asda Living Teesside (Asda), 3.9 km from the district centre
Morrisons Linthorpe Middlesbrough (Morrisons), 4.2 km from the district centre

Transport

Good accessScore 8 out of 10

Typical number of bus stops within 400 m: 6.
Nearest railway station: Middlesbrough Rail Station, 1.2 km from the district centre
Nearest tram or metro stop: Park Lane (Tyne and Wear Metro Station), 40.3 km from the district centre

Schools

Good schools nearbyScore 8 out of 10

Primary schools within 2 km

Sacred Heart Primary School: Good (graded inspection, 2024), 220 m away
Ayresome Primary School: Good (graded inspection, 2023), 230 m away
Newport Primary School: Good (graded inspection, 2023), 300 m away
Abingdon Primary School: Good (graded inspection of the predecessor school, 2023), 320 m away
Linthorpe Community Primary School: Outstanding (graded inspection, 2024), 970 m away

Secondary schools within 2 km

Outwood Academy Riverside: Good (graded inspection, 2023), 570 m away
Macmillan Academy: Good (graded inspection, 2022), 1.4 km away

Health

Excellent accessScore 9 out of 10

Nearest GP surgery: PARK SURGERY, 380 m from the district centre, CQC rating: Good, rated 2021
Nearest hospital with A&E: The James Cook University Hospital, 3.6 km from the district centre

Crime by type

Recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, most serious first, not counting anti-social behaviour.

Type	Per 1,000 a year
Robbery	7.9
Burglary	21.0
Violence and sexual offences (assaults, harassment, sexual offences)	119.8
Drugs	16.7
Possession of weapons (knives and other weapons)	3.8
Other crime	7.7
Other theft	26.8
Theft from the person (pickpocketing, bag snatching)	5.9
Vehicle crime (cars stolen and broken into)	16.2
Criminal damage and arson (vandalism)	34.0
Public order	34.1
Bicycle theft	5.4
Shoplifting	40.7

How often crimes lead to a charge

In TS1, 18% of crimes reported between September 2024 and August 2025 led to someone being charged or summonsed (England and Wales: 9%).

Charged or summonsed
Caution or other action
Suspect found, not prosecuted
No suspect identified
Still open

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Type	Crimes	Charged or summonsed	Caution or other action	Suspect found, not prosecuted	No suspect identified	Still open
Violence and sexual offences (assaults, harassment, sexual offences)	2,250	12%	2%	61%	23%	2%
Public order	638	21%	0%	43%	34%	1%
Shoplifting	525	42%	1%	24%	33%	0%
Criminal damage and arson (vandalism)	482	12%	1%	24%	62%	1%
Other theft	362	4%	0%	29%	66%	2%
Drugs	291	52%	16%	21%	8%	3%
Burglary	241	17%	1%	21%	61%	1%
Vehicle crime (cars stolen and broken into)	239	10%	0%	17%	73%	0%
Other crime	194	15%	1%	51%	18%	15%
Robbery	171	15%	1%	49%	35%	1%
Possession of weapons (knives and other weapons)	77	65%	4%	25%	5%	1%
Theft from the person (pickpocketing, bag snatching)	75	3%	0%	19%	77%	1%
Bicycle theft	55	2%	0%	11%	85%	2%

Uses the latest outcome police have recorded so far. 2% of these crimes are still open, so the final figures may be a little higher.

Road collisions

TS1, 2023 to 2025: 37 road collisions a year with someone hurt, 7.7 of them with someone killed or seriously injured. 1 collision was fatal in those 3 years.

2.0 a year per 1,000 residents (Great Britain 1.5). 21% of them killed or seriously injured someone (Great Britain 26%).

Collisions on public roads that the police recorded where someone was hurt, counted where they happened, so busy through roads and town centres with few residents come out high. Serious and slight use the Department for Transport's adjusted severity, comparable between police forces. Source: Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.

Trend over the years

Crime severity per resident (sentence-days of the crimes recorded each year). Hatched bars are years with fewer than twelve months of data for most residents.

Last 12 months: 62.6 against a 10-year average of 64.7, 3% lower.

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Questions about crime in TS1

Is TS1 a safe place to live?: TS1 scores 1 out of 10 for safety (high crime), compared with every postcode district in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Crime severity is 2.3 times the Middlesbrough average.
Is crime going up or down in TS1?: Down 25% over 5 years, from 7,568 recorded crimes a year to 5,682.
What is the most common crime in TS1?: The most common recorded crime is violence and sexual offences (assaults, harassment, sexual offences), about 120 per 1,000 residents a year.
How does crime in TS1 compare with Middlesbrough?: Crime severity in TS1 is 2.3 times the Middlesbrough average.
How often does crime lead to a charge in TS1?: In TS1, 18% of crimes reported between September 2024 and August 2025 led to someone being charged or summonsed (England and Wales: 9%). 36% were closed without a suspect being identified.
How many burglaries are solved in TS1?: Of 241 burglaries reported in TS1 between September 2024 and August 2025, 17% led to someone being charged or summonsed and 61% were closed with no suspect identified.

Towns

Middlesbrough

Council: Middlesbrough

Town-centre neighbourhoods

Few people live in these areas but many shop, work and go out there, so crime per resident looks far higher than the risk to someone living there. They have no Safety score, because compared with residential areas the number would mislead; their crime figures are still shown.

Middlesbrough 001A: 810 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, mostly shop and street theft.
Middlesbrough 001H: 1,439 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, mostly shop and street theft.