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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Readings in August 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Public Order.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson2
Public Order1
Other Theft1
All Crime4

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ruardean Hill (1.39 miles)15
Harrow Hill (1.86 miles)13
Ruardean Woodside (0.62 miles)10
Ruardean (0.62 miles)9
Joy’s Green (0.62 miles)7
Readings4
Lower Lydbrook (1.24 miles)3
Carterspiece (1.75 miles)2
Stowfield (1.39 miles)1
Brierley (0.88 miles)1

3.19%
of Lydbrook residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Readings?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ruardean Hill8
Harrow Hill7
Ruardean Woodside4
Ruardean4
Joy’s Green2
Readings0
Lower Lydbrook0
Carterspiece0
Stowfield0
Brierley0

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

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 Readings 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 Readings compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ross West41
2Cinderford East35
3Ross East34
4Cinderford West34
5Coleford26
6Kerne Bridge18
7Bream15
8Lydbrook12
9Berry Hill10
10Mitcheldean, Ruardean & Drybrook7

Which road in Readings has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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