Crime Statistics for Bulwell Forest, City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 2025

Is Bulwell Forest rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 345 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 Bulwell Forest, 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	97
Anti Social Behaviour	62
Shoplifting	41
Public Order	31
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Other Theft	27
Drugs	19
Vehicle Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	8
Other Crime	8
Burglary	7
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	345

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 Bulwell Forest. 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 Bulwell Forest

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Old Basford (1.39 miles)	710
Top Valley (0.62 miles)	517
Cinderhill (1.39 miles)	441
Highbury Vale (0.62 miles)	349
Bulwell Forest	345
Broomhill (1.86 miles)	319
Bestwood (1.24 miles)	280
Bulwell (0.62 miles)	263
Bestwood Village (1.39 miles)	141
Hempshill Vale (1.39 miles)	138

Where are the most violent places near Bulwell Forest?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Old Basford	238
Cinderhill	191
Top Valley	189
Highbury Vale	123
Broomhill	99
Bulwell Forest	97
Bestwood	95
Bulwell	75
Bestwood Village	49
Hempshill Vale	43

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

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 Bulwell Forest 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 Bulwell Forest compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bulwell Forest and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bulwell Forest is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Aspley	88
2	Bestwood	76
3	Basford	75
4	Bulwell	74
5	Hucknall South	70
6	Bulwell Forest	64
7	Leen Valley	64
8	Daybrook	62
9	Kimberley	49
10	Nuthall East & Strelley	48
11	Hucknall West	40

Which road in Bulwell Forest has the highest level of crime?

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