Crime in Helensburgh
Police data to August 2026.
Within 1.5 km of the centre of Helensburgh: about 10,409 residents in 21 neighbourhoods.
- Safety in the UK
- -Not enough data
- Living
- 7.4/10Good
Neighbourhoods by Safety
Within 1.5 km of the centre of Helensburgh.
Crime over 5 years
Not enough police data here for a 5-year trend.
What is recorded
Road collisions
Argyll and Bute, 2023 to 2025: 93 road collisions a year with someone hurt, 51 of them with someone killed or seriously injured. 21 collisions were fatal in those 3 years.
1.1 a year per 1,000 residents (Great Britain 1.5). 54% 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.
Postcode districts in Helensburgh
Nearby towns
Council: Argyll and Bute

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Questions about crime in Helensburgh
- Is Helensburgh a safe place to live?
- Helensburgh has no Safety score because there is not enough data. See the figures on this page for what is recorded.