Crime Statistics for Bestwood Village, City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 2025

Is Bestwood Village rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 141 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 Bestwood Village, 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	49
Anti Social Behaviour	35
Shoplifting	13
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Public Order	10
Other Theft	7
Drugs	7
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
Other Crime	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	141

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Top Valley (1.24 miles)	517
Butler’s Hill (0.88 miles)	412
Bulwell Forest (1.39 miles)	345
Broomhill (0.88 miles)	319
Bestwood (1.39 miles)	280
Redhill (1.39 miles)	275
Bulwell (1.75 miles)	263
Bestwood Village	141
Beauvale (1.96 miles)	125
Ruffs (1.96 miles)	109

Where are the most violent places near Bestwood Village?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Top Valley	189
Broomhill	99
Butler’s Hill	97
Bulwell Forest	97
Bestwood	95
Redhill	80
Bulwell	75
Beauvale	52
Bestwood Village	49
Ruffs	39

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

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 Bestwood Village 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 Bestwood Village compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bestwood Village and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bestwood Village is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bestwood	76
2	Bulwell	74
3	Hucknall Central	72
4	Hucknall South	70
5	Bulwell Forest	64
6	Daybrook	62
7	Hucknall North	57
8	Redhill	46
9	Bestwood St Albans	43
10	Ernehale	41
11	Hucknall West	40

Which road in Bestwood Village has the highest level of crime?

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