Crime Statistics for New Cheltenham, Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, 2024

Crime statistics for New Cheltenham, Kingswood

There were a total of 353 street level crime incidents in New Cheltenham 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 New Cheltenham, 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 Crime139
Anti Social Behaviour47
Vehicle Crime30
Public Order29
Criminal Damage Arson29
Shoplifting22
Burglary21
Other Theft18
Bicycle Theft4
Robbery4
Other Crime3
Drugs3
Theft From The Person2
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime353

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 New Cheltenham. 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 New Cheltenham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Fishponds (1.39 miles)442
Two Mile Hill (1.24 miles)434
Speedwell (1.24 miles)434
New Cheltenham353
Warmley Hill (0.62 miles)315
Mangotsfield (1.24 miles)265
Cadbury Heath (1.39 miles)121
The Batch (1.39 miles)121
Warmley (1.39 miles)104
Shortwood (1.39 miles)97

13.8%
of Kingswood (South Gloucestershire) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Cheltenham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Fishponds173
Two Mile Hill155
Speedwell155
New Cheltenham139
Mangotsfield114
Warmley Hill108
Warmley55
Cadbury Heath54
The Batch54
Shortwood41

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

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 New Cheltenham 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 New Cheltenham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Frome Vale84
2Eastville83
3Hillfields81
4St George Central78
5Kingswood70
6Woodstock68
7Staple Hill & Mangotsfield66
8New Cheltenham62
9Parkwall & Warmley60
10Hanham55
11Longwell Green31

Which road in New Cheltenham has the highest level of crime?

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

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