Crime Statistics for Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, 2024

Crime statistics for Bath, Bath

There were a total of 542 street level crime incidents in Bath in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bath, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime160
Anti Social Behaviour85
Shoplifting79
Public Order51
Criminal Damage Arson36
Other Theft35
Theft From The Person34
Burglary14
Vehicle Crime11
Robbery11
Drugs11
Bicycle Theft9
Other Crime4
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime542

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bath. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.



Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bath

We've taken the ten nearest places to Bath and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Bath has more crime than other surrounding areas.

LocationCrime Incidents
Beechen Cliff (0.62 miles)546
Dolemeads (0.62 miles)546
Bath542
Bathwick (0.88 miles)537
Lansdown (1.24 miles)428
Oldfield Park (0.62 miles)282
South Twerton (0.62 miles)282
Southdown (0.88 miles)190
Locksbrook (1.24 miles)183
Twerton (1.24 miles)183

21.31%
of Oldfield Park residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bath?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bath and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

LocationViolent Incidents
Bath160
Beechen Cliff156
Dolemeads156
Bathwick139
Lansdown117
Oldfield Park91
South Twerton91
Locksbrook71
Twerton71
Southdown68

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bath?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Bath to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Bath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Bath is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Twerton77
2Kingsmead66
3Southdown50
4Walcot47
5Moorlands45
6Bathwick45
7Westmoreland43
8Newbridge38
9Oldfield Park32
10Widcombe & Lyncombe29
11Combe Down25

Which road in Bath has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bath with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.

Last updated: January 2024
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