Crime Statistics for Bathampton, Bath and North East Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bathampton in October 2024. There were a total of 61 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bathampton, 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	19
Public Order	9
Vehicle Crime	9
Shoplifting	8
Burglary	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Crime	3
Other Theft	3
Anti Social Behaviour	2
All Crime	61

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bathwick (1.39 miles)	982
Larkhall (1.24 miles)	776
Fairfield Park (1.24 miles)	668
Beacon Hill (1.24 miles)	498
Lambridge (0.62 miles)	295
Lower Swainswick (0.88 miles)	130
Bailbrook (0.88 miles)	72
Bathampton	51
Batheaston (0.88 miles)	15
Bathford (1.24 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near Bathampton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bathwick	275
Larkhall	250
Fairfield Park	227
Beacon Hill	139
Lambridge	89
Lower Swainswick	43
Bailbrook	24
Batheaston	21
Bathampton	19
Bathford	11

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

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 Bathampton 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 Bathampton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingsmead	66
2	Southdown	50
3	Walcot	47
4	Moorlands	45
5	Bathwick	45
6	Lansdown	45
7	Westmoreland	43
8	Lambridge	35
9	Oldfield Park	32
10	Bathavon North	29
11	Widcombe & Lyncombe	29

Which road in Bathampton has the highest level of crime?

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