Crime Statistics for Moorend, South Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Moorend in August 2024. There were a total of 129 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Moorend, 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	45
Shoplifting	30
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Public Order	11
Other Theft	9
Vehicle Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
Other Crime	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	129

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Downend (0.88 miles)	406
Frenchay (0.88 miles)	406
Mangotsfield (1.24 miles)	353
Blackhorse (0.88 miles)	186
Moorend	129
Bromley Heath	129
Hambrook (0.62 miles)	98
Henfield (1.39 miles)	74
Kendleshire (0.88 miles)	59
Frome (0.75 miles)	31

Where are the most violent places near Moorend?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mangotsfield	162
Downend	118
Frenchay	118
Blackhorse	73
Henfield	55
Moorend	45
Bromley Heath	45
Hambrook	39
Kendleshire	22
Frome	9

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

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 Moorend 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 Moorend compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Lockleaze	84
2	Frome Vale	84
3	Eastville	83
4	Hillfields	81
5	St George Central	78
6	Staple Hill & Mangotsfield	66
7	New Cheltenham	62
8	Emersons Green	40
9	Frenchay & Downend	39
10	Winterbourne	31
11	Bradley Stoke South	25

Which road in Moorend has the highest level of crime?

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