Crime Statistics for Bulwell, City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bulwell in September 2024. There were a total of 253 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bulwell, 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	96
Other Theft	26
Public Order	24
Shoplifting	22
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Vehicle Crime	13
Drugs	9
Bicycle Theft	8
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
Robbery	5
Other Crime	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	253

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Old Basford (1.75 miles)	919
Highbury Vale (0.88 miles)	799
Bulwell Forest (0.62 miles)	545
Top Valley (1.24 miles)	482
Cinderhill (1.24 miles)	327
Bestwood (1.86 miles)	303
Bulwell	253
Hempshill Vale (0.88 miles)	181
Bestwood Village (1.75 miles)	138
Nuthall (1.39 miles)	89

Where are the most violent places near Bulwell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Old Basford	328
Highbury Vale	264
Bulwell Forest	230
Top Valley	146
Cinderhill	127
Bulwell	96
Bestwood	85
Hempshill Vale	79
Bestwood Village	46
Nuthall	28

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bulwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bulwell is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Aspley	88
2	Bestwood	76
3	Basford	75
4	Bulwell	74
5	Hucknall Central	72
6	Hucknall South	70
7	Bulwell Forest	64
8	Kimberley	49
9	Nuthall East & Strelley	48
10	Hucknall West	40
11	Watnall & Nuthall West	39

Which road in Bulwell has the highest level of crime?

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