Crime Statistics for Chew Magna, Bath and North East Somerset, 2025

Is Chew Magna rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 8 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Other Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Public Order	3
Other Crime	1
Burglary	1
Shoplifting	1
Violent Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	8

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 Chew Magna. 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 Magna

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Moorledge (0.88 miles)	16
Maiden Head (1.96 miles)	9
Chew Magna	8
Hollow Brook (1.96 miles)	4
Chew Valley Lake (2.11 miles)	4
Littleton (1.24 miles)	4
Chew Stoke (1.75 miles)	3
Blackmoor (1.24 miles)	2
Norton Hawkfield (1.39 miles)	1
Norton Malreward (2.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Chew Magna?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maiden Head	9
Littleton	6
Moorledge	4
Hollow Brook	3
Chew Valley Lake	3
Chew Stoke	3
Blackmoor	2
Chew Magna	1
Norton Hawkfield	0
Norton Malreward	0

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

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 Magna 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 Magna compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chew Magna and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Chew Magna have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Hartcliffe and Withywood.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hartcliffe and Withywood	95
2	Filwood	89
3	Bishopsworth	79
4	Hengrove and Whitchurch Park	78
5	Stockwood	75
6	Publow & Whitchurch	74
7	Bedminster	73
8	Winford	55
9	Backwell	34
10	Wrington	33
11	Chew Valley	30

Which road in Chew Magna has the highest level of crime?

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