Crime Statistics for Fiddler’s Green, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 2024

Crime statistics for Fiddler’s Green, Cheltenham

There were a total of 134 street level crime incidents in Fiddler’s Green 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 Fiddler’s Green, 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 Crime47
Anti Social Behaviour27
Public Order15
Criminal Damage Arson10
Vehicle Crime6
Drugs6
Other Crime6
Other Theft5
Burglary4
Bicycle Theft3
Shoplifting2
Robbery1
Theft From The Person1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime134

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 Fiddler’s Green. 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 Fiddler’s Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Alstone (1.24 miles)349
Arle (0.88 miles)309
Hesters Way (0.88 miles)309
St Mark’s (0.62 miles)270
Rowanfield (0.62 miles)270
Springbank (0.62 miles)176
Fiddler’s Green134
Benhall (0.88 miles)122
Uckington (1.24 miles)102
Bamfurlong (0.88 miles)29

8.23%
of Benhall and The Reddings residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Fiddler’s Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Arle107
Hesters Way107
Alstone104
St Mark’s97
Rowanfield97
Springbank65
Fiddler’s Green47
Uckington36
Benhall32
Bamfurlong9

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Fiddler’s Green?

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 Fiddler’s Green 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 Fiddler’s Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fiddler’s Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Fiddler’s Green is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1St Peter's79
2St Mark's76
3Springbank72
4Hesters Way56
5Benhall and The Reddings39
6Shurdington33
7Park21
8Warden Hill20
9Up Hatherley19
10Churchdown St John's8
11Churchdown Brookfield with Hucclecote7

Which road in Fiddler’s Green has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Fiddler’s Green 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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