Crime Statistics for Alstone, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Alstone in September 2024. There were a total of 247 incidents. 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 Alstone, 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	85
Anti Social Behaviour	53
Public Order	24
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Other Theft	15
Vehicle Crime	12
Shoplifting	12
Drugs	7
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	3
Burglary	3
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	247

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 Alstone. 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 Alstone

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cheltenham (0.62 miles)	485
St Peter’s (0.62 miles)	365
Hesters Way (0.88 miles)	355
Arle (0.88 miles)	316
Rowanfield (0.62 miles)	300
Alstone	247
St Mark’s (0.62 miles)	182
Bournside (0.62 miles)	125
Lansdown (0.62 miles)	125
Benhall (0.88 miles)	95

Where are the most violent places near Alstone?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cheltenham	175
Hesters Way	126
Arle	122
St Peter’s	121
Rowanfield	97
Alstone	85
St Mark’s	55
Bournside	34
Lansdown	34
Benhall	23

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

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 Alstone 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 Alstone compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Alstone and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Alstone is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter's	79
2	St Mark's	76
3	St Paul's	74
4	All Saints	56
5	Hesters Way	56
6	Lansdown	54
7	Benhall and The Reddings	39
8	College	35
9	Park	21
10	Warden Hill	20
11	Up Hatherley	19

Which road in Alstone has the highest level of crime?

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