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

Crime statistics for Fairfield Park, Bath

There were a total of 412 street level crime incidents in Fairfield Park in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Fairfield Park, 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 Crime120
Shoplifting108
Anti Social Behaviour64
Public Order32
Other Theft22
Criminal Damage Arson18
Vehicle Crime15
Burglary12
Theft From The Person6
Drugs5
Robbery4
Bicycle Theft3
Other Crime2
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime412

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Fairfield Park. 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 Fairfield Park

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bathwick (0.62 miles)457
Fairfield Park412
Beacon Hill412
Larkhall412
Lansdown (0.62 miles)350
Lambridge (0.62 miles)223
Charlcombe (0.88 miles)139
Lower Swainswick (0.88 miles)46
Bailbrook (0.88 miles)46
Bathampton (1.24 miles)42

22.78%
of Walcot residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Fairfield Park?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bathwick139
Fairfield Park120
Beacon Hill120
Larkhall120
Lansdown111
Lambridge59
Charlcombe37
Bathampton18
Lower Swainswick17
Bailbrook17

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

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 Fairfield Park 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 Fairfield Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fairfield Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Fairfield Park is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Kingsmead66
2Southdown50
3Walcot47
4Bathwick45
5Lansdown45
6Westmoreland43
7Newbridge38
8Lambridge35
9Oldfield Park32
10Weston32
11Widcombe & Lyncombe29

Which road in Fairfield Park has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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