Crime Statistics for Bournside, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bournside in September 2024. There were a total of 125 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Violent Crime	34
Other Theft	13
Public Order	8
Shoplifting	7
Vehicle Crime	7
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Other Crime	5
Burglary	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	125

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 Bournside. 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 Bournside

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cheltenham (0.88 miles)	485
St Peter’s (1.24 miles)	365
Rowanfield (0.88 miles)	300
Alstone (0.62 miles)	247
St Mark’s (0.88 miles)	182
Fiddler’s Green (1.39 miles)	130
Bournside	125
Lansdown	125
Benhall (0.62 miles)	95
Warden Hill (0.62 miles)	47

Where are the most violent places near Bournside?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cheltenham	175
St Peter’s	121
Rowanfield	97
Alstone	85
St Mark’s	55
Fiddler’s Green	55
Bournside	34
Lansdown	34
Benhall	23
Warden Hill	20

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

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 Bournside 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 Bournside compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bournside and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bournside is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter's	79
2	St Mark's	76
3	St Paul's	74
4	Lansdown	54
5	Benhall and The Reddings	39
6	College	35
7	Shurdington	33
8	Park	21
9	Warden Hill	20
10	Up Hatherley	19
11	Leckhampton	18

Which road in Bournside has the highest level of crime?

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