Crime Statistics for Hesters Way, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 2025

Is Hesters Way rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 213 incidents. 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 Hesters Way, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	84
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Burglary	14
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Crime	11
Other Theft	9
Public Order	7
Bicycle Theft	6
Drugs	6
Robbery	3
Shoplifting	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	213

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alstone (0.88 miles)	512
St Peter’s (0.62 miles)	317
Fiddler’s Green (0.88 miles)	218
Arle	213
Hesters Way	213
Rowanfield (0.62 miles)	198
St Mark’s (0.62 miles)	190
Springbank (0.62 miles)	145
Benhall (1.24 miles)	113
Uckington (0.88 miles)	88

Where are the most violent places near Hesters Way?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alstone	360
St Peter’s	99
Rowanfield	87
Arle	84
Hesters Way	84
St Mark’s	73
Fiddler’s Green	63
Springbank	54
Uckington	40
Benhall	31

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

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 Hesters Way 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 Hesters Way compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter's	79
2	St Mark's	76
3	Springbank	72
4	Pittville	70
5	Hesters Way	56
6	Lansdown	54
7	Benhall and The Reddings	39
8	Swindon Village	38
9	Park	21
10	Warden Hill	20
11	Up Hatherley	19

Which road in Hesters Way has the highest level of crime?

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