Crime Statistics for St Peter’s, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 2024

Crime statistics for St Peter’s, Cheltenham

There were a total of 482 street level crime incidents in St Peter’s 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 St Peter’s, 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 Crime157
Anti Social Behaviour72
Shoplifting45
Public Order43
Criminal Damage Arson41
Vehicle Crime37
Burglary27
Other Theft26
Drugs13
Other Crime11
Bicycle Theft6
Robbery2
Theft From The Person2
All Crime482

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 St Peter’s. 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 St Peter’s

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cheltenham (0.88 miles)620
Marle Hill (1.24 miles)605
Pittville (1.24 miles)605
St Peter’s482
Alstone (0.62 miles)349
Arle (0.62 miles)309
Hesters Way (0.62 miles)309
St Mark’s (0.88 miles)270
Rowanfield (0.88 miles)270
Springbank (1.24 miles)176

18.91%
of Hesters Way residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near St Peter’s?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Marle Hill169
Pittville169
Cheltenham160
St Peter’s157
Arle107
Hesters Way107
Alstone104
St Mark’s97
Rowanfield97
Springbank65

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in St Peter’s?

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 St Peter’s 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 St Peter’s compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St Peter’s and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. St Peter’s is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1St Peter's79
2St Mark's76
3St Paul's74
4Springbank72
5Pittville70
6All Saints56
7Hesters Way56
8Lansdown54
9Swindon Village38
10Park21
11Warden Hill20

Which road in St Peter’s has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in St Peter’s with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Barbridge Road.

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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