Crime Statistics for Lower Rea, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, 2024

Crime statistics for Lower Rea, Gloucester

There were a total of 104 street level crime incidents in Lower Rea in February 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 Rea, 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 Crime44
Anti Social Behaviour20
Public Order10
Other Theft9
Shoplifting7
Criminal Damage Arson4
Vehicle Crime3
Burglary3
Other Crime1
Theft From The Person1
Drugs1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime104

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
St Paul’s (1.75 miles)243
Tuffley (1.86 miles)231
Podsmead (1.24 miles)224
Lower Tuffley (1.39 miles)216
Hempsted (0.88 miles)117
Lower Rea104
Four Mile Elm (1.86 miles)31
Hardeicke (1.86 miles)31
Highnam (2.56 miles)4
Calcott’s Green (1.75 miles)1

7.27%
of Quedgeley Severn Vale residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Rea?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
St Paul’s95
Lower Tuffley83
Podsmead82
Tuffley62
Hempsted51
Lower Rea44
Four Mile Elm17
Hardeicke17
Highnam1
Calcott’s Green1

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

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 Rea 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 Rea compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Rea and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Lower Rea have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Matson and Robinswood.

#WardScore
1Matson and Robinswood78
2Barton and Tredworth78
3Westgate76
4Kingsholm and Wotton70
5Moreland63
6Podsmead48
7Kingsway41
8Quedgeley Fieldcourt40
9Tuffley29
10Grange28
11Quedgeley Severn Vale7

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

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

Last updated: February 2024
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