Crime Statistics for Uplands, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Uplands in August 2024. There were a total of 354 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 Uplands, 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	130
Anti Social Behaviour	90
Shoplifting	30
Public Order	28
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Other Theft	20
Drugs	9
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Crime	4
Burglary	4
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	354

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 Uplands. 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 Uplands

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Uplands	294
Paganhill (0.62 miles)	248
Bowbridge (0.62 miles)	121
Cainscross (1.24 miles)	92
Dudbridge (1.39 miles)	79
Bread Street (1.39 miles)	78
Old Canal (1.63 miles)	70
Ruscombe (1.75 miles)	35
Butterow (1.24 miles)	26
Far Thrupp (1.39 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Uplands?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Uplands	130
Paganhill	104
Bowbridge	35
Dudbridge	34
Ruscombe	32
Old Canal	31
Cainscross	29
Bread Street	27
Butterow	8
Far Thrupp	5

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

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 Uplands 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 Uplands compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Uplands and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Uplands have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Randwick, Whiteshill and Ruscombe.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stroud Central	65
2	Stroud Farmhill and Paganhill	61
3	Stroud Slade	60
4	Stroud Valley	53
5	Stroud Trinity	38
6	Stroud Uplands	36
7	Thrupp	11
8	Cainscross	9
9	Minchinhampton	6
10	Rodborough	5
11	Randwick, Whiteshill and Ruscombe	1

Which road in Uplands has the highest level of crime?

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