Crime Statistics for Ruardean Hill, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, 2025

Is Ruardean Hill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Violent Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	7

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 Ruardean Hill. 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 Ruardean Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Drybrook (0.62 miles)	15
Harrow Hill (0.88 miles)	13
Plump Hill (1.86 miles)	12
Lane End (1.39 miles)	9
Ruardean (1.24 miles)	9
Hope Mansell (1.39 miles)	8
Readings (1.39 miles)	7
Ruardean Hill	7
Brierley (1.39 miles)	5
Ruardean Woodside (0.88 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Ruardean Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Drybrook	11
Plump Hill	8
Lane End	7
Harrow Hill	5
Hope Mansell	5
Ruardean Hill	3
Ruardean	2
Brierley	1
Readings	0
Ruardean Woodside	0

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

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 Ruardean Hill 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 Ruardean Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ross West	41
2	Cinderford East	35
3	Ross East	34
4	Cinderford West	34
5	Kerne Bridge	18
6	Lydbrook	12
7	Penyard	12
8	Berry Hill	10
9	Longhope & Huntley	7
10	Mitcheldean, Ruardean & Drybrook	7

Which road in Ruardean Hill has the highest level of crime?

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