Crime Statistics for Bathwick, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, 2025

Is Bathwick rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 842 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	209
Violent Crime	205
Anti Social Behaviour	127
Other Theft	74
Public Order	62
Criminal Damage Arson	46
Vehicle Crime	35
Burglary	30
Bicycle Theft	18
Drugs	18
Robbery	10
Possession Of Weapons	4
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	842

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Beechen Cliff (0.62 miles)	842
Bathwick	807
Beacon Hill (0.62 miles)	627
Fairfield Park (0.62 miles)	580
Larkhall (0.62 miles)	580
Lansdown (0.88 miles)	477
Bath (0.88 miles)	466
Dolemeads (0.62 miles)	447
Lambridge (0.88 miles)	412
Oldfield Park (1.39 miles)	277

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Beechen Cliff	207
Bathwick	205
Fairfield Park	203
Beacon Hill	193
Bath	133
Larkhall	119
Dolemeads	118
Lansdown	97
Oldfield Park	96
Lambridge	71

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingsmead	66
2	Southdown	50
3	Walcot	47
4	Moorlands	45
5	Bathwick	45
6	Lansdown	45
7	Westmoreland	43
8	Newbridge	38
9	Lambridge	35
10	Oldfield Park	32
11	Widcombe & Lyncombe	29

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.