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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bathwick in September 2024. There were a total of 523 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bathwick, 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 Crime144
Shoplifting87
Anti Social Behaviour62
Public Order60
Other Theft47
Criminal Damage Arson39
Burglary29
Vehicle Crime17
Robbery11
Bicycle Theft8
Theft From The Person6
Other Crime6
Drugs4
Possession Of Weapons3
All Crime523

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 Bathwick. 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 Bathwick

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Fairfield Park (0.62 miles)784
Beechen Cliff (0.62 miles)528
Bathwick501
Larkhall (0.62 miles)465
Bath (0.88 miles)450
Beacon Hill (0.62 miles)446
Dolemeads (0.62 miles)364
Lansdown (0.88 miles)359
Oldfield Park (1.39 miles)294
Lambridge (0.88 miles)260

29.26%
of Kingsmead residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bathwick?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Fairfield Park240
Dolemeads230
Bath219
Beechen Cliff152
Bathwick144
Beacon Hill136
Larkhall135
Lansdown114
Oldfield Park95
Lambridge79

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

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 Bathwick 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 Bathwick compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bathwick and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Bathwick have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Widcombe & Lyncombe.

#WardScore
1Kingsmead66
2Southdown50
3Walcot47
4Moorlands45
5Bathwick45
6Lansdown45
7Westmoreland43
8Newbridge38
9Lambridge35
10Oldfield Park32
11Widcombe & Lyncombe29

Which road in Bathwick has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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