Crime Statistics for Bournside, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 2024

Crime statistics for Bournside, Cheltenham

There were a total of 172 street level crime incidents in Bournside 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 Bournside, 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 Crime41
Anti Social Behaviour28
Vehicle Crime20
Other Theft15
Burglary14
Criminal Damage Arson11
Public Order11
Drugs9
Shoplifting8
Bicycle Theft6
Other Crime6
Possession Of Weapons2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime172

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 Bournside. 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 Bournside

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cheltenham (0.88 miles)620
St Peter’s (1.24 miles)482
Alstone (0.62 miles)349
St Mark’s (0.88 miles)270
Rowanfield (0.88 miles)270
Bournside172
Lansdown172
Fiddler’s Green (1.39 miles)134
Benhall (0.62 miles)122
Warden Hill (0.62 miles)57

9.6%
of Warden Hill residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bournside?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cheltenham160
St Peter’s157
Alstone104
St Mark’s97
Rowanfield97
Fiddler’s Green47
Bournside41
Lansdown41
Benhall32
Warden Hill12

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

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 Bournside 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 Bournside compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1St Peter's79
2St Mark's76
3St Paul's74
4Lansdown54
5Benhall and The Reddings39
6College35
7Shurdington33
8Park21
9Warden Hill20
10Up Hatherley19
11Leckhampton18

Which road in Bournside has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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