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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ruardean in August 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ruardean, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime4
Criminal Damage Arson2
Other Theft1
Public Order1
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime9

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 Ruardean. 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 Ruardean

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ruardean Hill (1.24 miles)15
Ruardean Woodside (0.88 miles)10
Ruardean9
Joy’s Green (0.88 miles)7
Hope Mansell (1.39 miles)5
Readings (0.62 miles)4
Lower Lydbrook (1.39 miles)3
Stowfield (1.24 miles)1
Brierley (1.39 miles)1
Kiln Green (1.39 miles)0

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



Where are the most violent places near Ruardean?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ruardean Hill8
Ruardean Woodside4
Ruardean4
Hope Mansell4
Joy’s Green2
Readings0
Lower Lydbrook0
Stowfield0
Brierley0
Kiln Green0

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

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 Ruardean 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 Ruardean compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ruardean and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ruardean is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Ross West41
2Cinderford East35
3Ross East34
4Cinderford West34
5Coleford26
6Kerne Bridge18
7Lydbrook12
8Berry Hill10
9Longhope & Huntley7
10Mitcheldean, Ruardean & Drybrook7

Which road in Ruardean has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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