Crime Statistics for Rush Hill, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rush Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 115 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rush Hill, 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	43
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Shoplifting	18
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Public Order	8
Burglary	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Theft	2
Robbery	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	115

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 Rush Hill. 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 Rush Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bath (1.39 miles)	450
Oldfield Park (1.24 miles)	284
South Twerton (1.24 miles)	284
Southdown (0.62 miles)	200
Locksbrook (1.39 miles)	172
Fox Hill (1.24 miles)	168
Odd Down	115
Rush Hill	115
Southstoke (0.88 miles)	85
Englishcombe (1.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Rush Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bath	219
Oldfield Park	83
South Twerton	83
Southdown	69
Fox Hill	60
Locksbrook	57
Southstoke	53
Odd Down	43
Rush Hill	43
Englishcombe	1

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

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 Rush Hill 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 Rush Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rush Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rush Hill is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Twerton	77
2	Kingsmead	66
3	Southdown	50
4	Moorlands	45
5	Bathwick	45
6	Odd Down	45
7	Westmoreland	43
8	Newbridge	38
9	Oldfield Park	32
10	Widcombe & Lyncombe	29
11	Combe Down	25

Which road in Rush Hill has the highest level of crime?

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