Crime Statistics for Podsmead, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Podsmead in September 2024. There were a total of 332 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 Podsmead, 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	125
Anti Social Behaviour	76
Public Order	30
Other Theft	30
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Shoplifting	20
Other Crime	9
Burglary	8
Vehicle Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
Drugs	2
All Crime	332

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 Podsmead. 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 Podsmead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Saintbridge (1.96 miles)	380
Coney Hill (2.24 miles)	366
Podsmead	319
Lower Tuffley (0.62 miles)	311
St Paul’s (1.24 miles)	283
Matson (1.86 miles)	235
Lower Rea (1.24 miles)	158
Tuffley (0.62 miles)	93
Hempsted (0.88 miles)	87
Brookthorpe (1.96 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Podsmead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Saintbridge	211
Coney Hill	137
Lower Tuffley	136
Podsmead	125
Matson	106
St Paul’s	99
Tuffley	75
Lower Rea	56
Hempsted	37
Brookthorpe	3

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

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 Podsmead 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 Podsmead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Matson and Robinswood	78
2	Barton and Tredworth	78
3	Westgate	76
4	Coney Hill	71
5	Moreland	63
6	Podsmead	48
7	Kingsway	41
8	Quedgeley Fieldcourt	40
9	Tuffley	29
10	Grange	28
11	Quedgeley Severn Vale	7

Which road in Podsmead has the highest level of crime?

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