Crime Statistics for Bestwood, City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 2025

Is Bestwood rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 307 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bestwood, 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 Crime100
Shoplifting51
Anti Social Behaviour46
Criminal Damage Arson33
Vehicle Crime16
Public Order14
Other Crime12
Drugs11
Other Theft9
Burglary8
Theft From The Person2
Bicycle Theft2
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery1
All Crime307

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 Bestwood. 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 Bestwood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Top Valley (0.62 miles)609
Sherwood (1.39 miles)495
Old Basford (1.39 miles)432
Bulwell Forest (1.24 miles)419
Bestwood307
Redhill (0.88 miles)274
Highbury Vale (1.39 miles)266
Bestwood Village (1.39 miles)238
Mapperley (1.75 miles)226
Bulwell (1.86 miles)220

18.82%
of Bestwood residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bestwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Top Valley229
Sherwood228
Highbury Vale197
Bulwell Forest193
Old Basford154
Mapperley150
Redhill110
Bestwood100
Bulwell85
Bestwood Village70

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

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 Bestwood 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 Bestwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bestwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bestwood is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Berridge79
2Bestwood76
3Basford75
4Bulwell74
5Sherwood67
6Bulwell Forest64
7Daybrook62
8Redhill46
9Ernehale41
10Porchester26
11Woodthorpe18

Which road in Bestwood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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