Crime Statistics for Barnwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barnwood in September 2024. There were a total of 411 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 Barnwood, 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	151
Shoplifting	71
Anti Social Behaviour	66
Public Order	29
Other Theft	20
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Other Crime	12
Burglary	11
Drugs	11
Vehicle Crime	11
Bicycle Theft	8
Theft From The Person	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	411

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 Barnwood. 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 Barnwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Longford (1.75 miles)	849
Barnwood	411
Coney Hill (0.62 miles)	354
St Paul’s (1.96 miles)	277
Saintbridge (1.24 miles)	244
Longlevens (1.24 miles)	157
Abbeydale (1.39 miles)	151
Churchdown (1.76 miles)	131
Matson (1.86 miles)	127
Innsworth (1.96 miles)	88

Where are the most violent places near Barnwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Longford	320
Barnwood	151
Coney Hill	114
St Paul’s	101
Saintbridge	95
Abbeydale	70
Longlevens	69
Churchdown	62
Matson	49
Innsworth	40

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

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 Barnwood 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 Barnwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barnwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barnwood is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Matson and Robinswood	78
2	Barton and Tredworth	78
3	Westgate	76
4	Coney Hill	71
5	Kingsholm and Wotton	70
6	Abbeydale	53
7	Elmbridge	21
8	Barnwood	20
9	Abbeymead	10
10	Hucclecote	8
11	Longlevens	7

Which road in Barnwood has the highest level of crime?

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