Crime Statistics for Abson, South Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Abson in September 2024. There were a total of 13 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 Abson, 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	6
Other Theft	4
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	13

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 Abson. 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 Abson

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Emerson’s Green (2.77 miles)	387
Warmley (1.96 miles)	149
Shortwood (1.96 miles)	90
Bridge Yate (1.39 miles)	50
Parkfield (1.96 miles)	46
Holbrook Common (0.88 miles)	18
Abson	12
Doynton (0.62 miles)	9
Beach (2.49 miles)	1
Lower Hamswell (2.63 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Abson?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Emerson’s Green	168
Warmley	101
Shortwood	45
Bridge Yate	28
Parkfield	26
Holbrook Common	20
Abson	6
Doynton	5
Beach	0
Lower Hamswell	0

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

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 Abson 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 Abson compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Abson and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Abson is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	St George Central	78
2	Kingswood	70
3	Woodstock	68
4	Staple Hill & Mangotsfield	66
5	New Cheltenham	62
6	Parkwall & Warmley	60
7	Hanham	55
8	Boyd Valley	45
9	Emersons Green	40
10	Longwell Green	31
11	Bilton & Oldland Common	31

Which road in Abson has the highest level of crime?

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