Crime Statistics for Falfield, South Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Falfield in September 2024. There were a total of 38 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Falfield, 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	24
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Public Order	4
Burglary	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Other Theft	2
All Crime	38

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 Falfield. 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 Falfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Falfield	38
Lower Stone (0.88 miles)	15
Bibstone (1.39 miles)	12
Damery (1.39 miles)	8
Cromhall (1.96 miles)	8
Charfield Hill (1.96 miles)	6
Stone (1.24 miles)	6
Avening Green (1.86 miles)	3
Tortworth (1.24 miles)	2
Townwell (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Falfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Falfield	24
Lower Stone	15
Cromhall	8
Bibstone	6
Damery	6
Stone	6
Charfield Hill	5
Townwell	2
Avening Green	1
Tortworth	1

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

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 Falfield 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 Falfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Thornbury	37
2	Charfield	34
3	Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge	30
4	Frampton Cotterell	30
5	Yate North	28
6	Lydney West & Aylburton	20
7	Dursley	18
8	Cam East	11
9	Cam West	10
10	Berkeley Vale	10
11	Wotton-under-Edge	5

Which road in Falfield has the highest level of crime?

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