Crime Statistics for Iron Acton, Frampton Cotterell, South Gloucestershire, 2024

There were a total of 3 street level crime incidents in Iron Acton in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Iron Acton, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	2
Other Theft	1
All Crime	3

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 Iron Acton. 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 Iron Acton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Goose Green (2.48 miles)	167
Henfield (2.49 miles)	66
Ram Hill (2.49 miles)	66
Frampton Cotterell (1.39 miles)	55
Watley’s End (1.75 miles)	42
Coalpit Heath (1.86 miles)	29
Frampton End (1.24 miles)	23
Mayshill (1.39 miles)	20
Engine Common (1.39 miles)	6
Iron Acton	3

Where are the most violent places near Iron Acton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Goose Green	83
Henfield	41
Ram Hill	41
Frampton Cotterell	27
Watley’s End	18
Coalpit Heath	14
Frampton End	13
Mayshill	13
Engine Common	2
Iron Acton	2

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

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 Iron Acton 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 Iron Acton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Patchway Coniston	55
2	Yate Central	44
3	Emersons Green	40
4	Dodington	34
5	Winterbourne	31
6	Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge	30
7	Frampton Cotterell	30
8	Yate North	28
9	Bradley Stoke South	25
10	Stoke Gifford	24
11	Bradley Stoke North	21

Which road in Iron Acton has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Iron Acton with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Old Gloucester Road.