The Yapton crime map disagrees with the Yapton reputation. The published rate runs about a quarter above the Arun district average. Roughly 110 recorded offences per thousand residents per year. About 770 recorded incidents over the last twelve months. Not the village-life picture the estate agents will lead with.
The published crime rate for Yapton over the twelve months to March 2026 is about 110 per thousand residents per year, drawn from police-recorded figures aggregated to the small statistical areas that cover the village. Total volume was about 770 recorded incidents across that window. The Arun district-wide rate is about 90 per thousand across roughly 165,000 residents. Yapton therefore runs roughly 25% above its own local authority, which is the headline number and the one that most matters for a buyer's on-paper decision.
What that rate does not mean is that walking through Yapton is a quarter more dangerous than walking through Arundel or Bognor. The rate is a statistical measure across a small population, not a lived-experience measure across a specific street. Small populations magnify small clusters of offences into rates that look sharper than the ground feels. What it does mean is that assuming village-equals-quiet would be wrong here, and that the police map does not discount rural addresses out of politeness.
The gap between the Yapton reputation and the Yapton number is where a lot of buyer assumptions get quietly dismantled. Rural West Sussex villages are supposed to run quieter than their district averages, and most do. Yapton, on this evidence, does not. Whether that reflects a genuinely different pattern of offences, or the arithmetic quirk of a village-sized population caught inside a couple of statistical output areas with more going on than the rest of the district, is a question for the category breakdown rather than the headline. The headline is the headline, and it sits above the average.
The published data comes from police-recorded incidents mapped to small statistical areas, and it updates month by month with roughly a two-month lag. The twelve-month figure quoted here runs from April 2025 to March 2026, which is what the police service publishes on its own map at the time of writing. Anyone doing due diligence on a specific address should go directly to that map, drop the pin on the street, and read the twelve-month category breakdown for that specific area. The overall rate tells the buyer what to expect on paper. The category mix tells the buyer what kind of thing to expect on the street.
Two other framing points sit around the number. The village's rate covers a population of about 6,900 people over the year, so a small change in incident count moves the rate more than it would in a town. And the comparison here is against Arun as a whole, which mixes urban Littlehampton, seaside Bognor and a network of small rural parishes, so the district average is itself a blended figure rather than a rural benchmark. A truer village-to-village comparison would need the neighbouring parishes' rates side by side, which this brief does not carry.
The verdict is two out of five, which is below the local average and honest about it. Yapton is not dangerous, but it is not the quiet-village picture the reputation promises. Read the specific street on the police map before deciding what the number means for the household.