Crime Statistics for Chew, Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chew in September 2024. There were a total of 261 incidents. 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 Chew, 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	96
Anti Social Behaviour	49
Public Order	34
Shoplifting	20
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	16
Drugs	10
Vehicle Crime	8
Burglary	6
Bicycle Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	261

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Chew. 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 Chew

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hicks Gate (1.37 miles)	194
Chew	170
Stockwood Vale (0.81 miles)	153
Keynsham (0.2 miles)	123
Longwell Green (1.68 miles)	97
Stone Hill (1.81 miles)	86
Avon (1.1 miles)	57
Hanham Green (1.26 miles)	47
Bitton (1.85 miles)	19
Chewton Keynsham (1.43 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Chew?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chew	96
Stockwood Vale	75
Hicks Gate	61
Keynsham	45
Longwell Green	36
Stone Hill	25
Hanham Green	20
Avon	18
Bitton	6
Chewton Keynsham	2

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

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 Chew 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 Chew compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chew and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chew is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stockwood	75
2	Brislington West	75
3	Publow & Whitchurch	74
4	Keynsham South	69
5	Keynsham North	67
6	Brislington East	66
7	St George Troopers Hill	63
8	Parkwall & Warmley	60
9	Hanham	55
10	Longwell Green	31
11	Keynsham East	31

Which road in Chew has the highest level of crime?

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