Crime Statistics for Forwood, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2024

Is Forwood rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 33 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	10
Violent Crime	5
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Burglary	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Theft	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	33

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

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

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 Forwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pinfarthings (0.62 miles)	41
Forest Green (1.24 miles)	39
Forwood	35
Amberley (0.88 miles)	34
Ball’s Green (0.62 miles)	32
Box	19
Minchinhampton	19
Bubblewell (0.62 miles)	16
Burleigh (0.62 miles)	14
Frome (0.73 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Forwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Forest Green	19
Pinfarthings	18
Ball’s Green	16
Amberley	14
Forwood	5
Box	4
Minchinhampton	4
Burleigh	3
Bubblewell	2
Frome	1

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

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 Forwood 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 Forwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Forwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Forwood is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stroud Central	65
2	Stroud Farmhill and Paganhill	61
3	Stroud Slade	60
4	Stroud Valley	53
5	Stroud Trinity	38
6	Nailsworth	20
7	Thrupp	11
8	Minchinhampton	6
9	Rodborough	5
10	Amberley and Woodchester	2
11	Chalford	0

Which road in Forwood has the highest level of crime?

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

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