Crime Statistics for Lower Stone, Falfield, South Gloucestershire, 2024

Crime statistics for Lower Stone, Falfield

There were a total of 9 street level crime incidents in Lower Stone 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 Lower Stone, 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 Crime6
Anti Social Behaviour2
Public Order1
All Crime9

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 Lower Stone. 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 Stone

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Duckhole (2.24 miles)23
Newton (2.24 miles)23
Lower Stone9
Falfield (0.88 miles)9
Avening Green (2.56 miles)6
Stone (0.88 miles)4
Damery (1.86 miles)3
Bibstone (2.24 miles)2
Tortworth (1.96 miles)2
Newport (2.24 miles)0

4.96%
of Charfield residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Stone?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Duckhole7
Newton7
Lower Stone6
Falfield5
Avening Green2
Stone1
Damery1
Bibstone0
Tortworth0
Newport0

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

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 Stone 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 Stone compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Thornbury37
2Charfield34
3Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge30
4Frampton Cotterell30
5Lydney West & Aylburton20
6Dursley18
7Cam East11
8Berkeley Vale10
9Tidenham9
10St. Briavels8
11Wotton-under-Edge5

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

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

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