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

Is Dolemeads rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 447 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 Dolemeads, 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	118
Shoplifting	91
Anti Social Behaviour	72
Public Order	39
Other Theft	39
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Vehicle Crime	20
Burglary	18
Drugs	10
Bicycle Theft	6
Robbery	4
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	447

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 Dolemeads. 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 Dolemeads

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Beechen Cliff	842
Bathwick (0.62 miles)	807
Beacon Hill (1.24 miles)	627
Fairfield Park (1.24 miles)	580
Larkhall (1.24 miles)	580
Bath (0.62 miles)	466
Dolemeads	447
South Twerton (1.24 miles)	311
Oldfield Park (1.24 miles)	277
Fox Hill (1.24 miles)	91

Where are the most violent places near Dolemeads?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Dolemeads 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
South Twerton	99
Oldfield Park	96
Fox Hill	37

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

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 Dolemeads 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 Dolemeads compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dolemeads and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Dolemeads 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	Widcombe & Lyncombe	29
11	Combe Down	25

Which road in Dolemeads has the highest level of crime?

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