Crime Statistics for Blakeney, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blakeney in October 2024. 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 Violent Crime.

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

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Blakeney. 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 Blakeney

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Allaston (2.24 miles)	61
New Mills (2.24 miles)	61
Highfield (2.24 miles)	48
Oldcroft (1.24 miles)	15
Yorkley Slade (1.39 miles)	14
Yorkley (1.86 miles)	13
Two Bridges (1.24 miles)	9
Blakeney	8
Lower Soudley (1.86 miles)	5
Hagloe (1.24 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Blakeney?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Highfield	47
Allaston	28
New Mills	28
Oldcroft	9
Yorkley Slade	9
Yorkley	7
Lower Soudley	4
Two Bridges	3
Blakeney	3
Hagloe	1

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

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 Blakeney 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 Blakeney compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Blakeney and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Blakeney is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Cinderford East	35
2	Cinderford West	34
3	Lydney East	34
4	Newnham	27
5	Lydney West & Aylburton	20
6	Westbury-on-Severn	16
7	Bream	15
8	Berkeley Vale	10
9	Lydney North	6

Which road in Blakeney has the highest level of crime?

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