Crime Statistics for Lower Cam, Cam, Gloucestershire, 2024

Crime statistics for Lower Cam, Cam

There were a total of 59 street level crime incidents in Lower Cam 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 Lower Cam, 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 Crime33
Anti Social Behaviour9
Vehicle Crime4
Burglary4
Other Crime3
Criminal Damage Arson3
Other Theft2
Public Order1
All Crime59

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 Lower Cam. 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 Lower Cam

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Upper Cam (0.88 miles)79
Lower Cam59
Tilsdown (0.62 miles)58
Ashmead Green (1.39 miles)58
Cam (0.62 miles)58
Dursley (1.75 miles)48
Leathern Bottle (1.24 miles)8
Far Green (1.86 miles)5
Tumpy Green (1.39 miles)2
Gossington (1.39 miles)0

4.98%
of Cam West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Cam?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Upper Cam41
Lower Cam33
Tilsdown32
Cam32
Ashmead Green27
Dursley21
Leathern Bottle3
Far Green2
Tumpy Green0
Gossington0

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

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 Lower Cam 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 Lower Cam compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Dursley18
2Severn16
3The Stanleys13
4Stonehouse12
5Cam East11
6Cam West10
7Berkeley Vale10
8Wotton-under-Edge5
9Grumbolds Ash with Avening5
10Coaley and Uley5
11Amberley and Woodchester2

Which road in Lower Cam has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Lower Cam 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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