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

There were a total of 503 street level crime incidents in Bathwick in July 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 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 Crime140
Anti Social Behaviour96
Shoplifting60
Public Order59
Vehicle Crime35
Criminal Damage Arson34
Other Theft28
Burglary18
Robbery9
Theft From The Person7
Drugs6
Possession Of Weapons4
Bicycle Theft4
Other Crime3
All Crime503

Map of street level crime incidents in July 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
Lansdown (0.88 miles)715
Bath (0.88 miles)544
Bathwick503
Beechen Cliff (0.62 miles)496
Dolemeads (0.62 miles)496
Fairfield Park (0.62 miles)473
Beacon Hill (0.62 miles)473
Larkhall (0.62 miles)473
Lambridge (0.88 miles)434
Oldfield Park (1.39 miles)283

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
Lansdown226
Lambridge145
Bath141
Bathwick140
Fairfield Park140
Beacon Hill140
Larkhall140
Beechen Cliff135
Dolemeads135
Oldfield Park81

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: July 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0



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