Crime Statistics for New Cheltenham, Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Cheltenham in September 2024. There were a total of 467 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 New Cheltenham, 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	200
Anti Social Behaviour	59
Shoplifting	39
Public Order	36
Vehicle Crime	32
Burglary	27
Other Theft	27
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Drugs	7
Possession Of Weapons	6
Bicycle Theft	6
Robbery	5
Other Crime	4
All Crime	467

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 New Cheltenham. 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 New Cheltenham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Two Mile Hill (1.24 miles)	725
Fishponds (1.39 miles)	613
Speedwell (1.24 miles)	461
New Cheltenham	325
Mangotsfield (1.24 miles)	303
Warmley Hill (0.62 miles)	275
Cadbury Heath (1.39 miles)	266
Warmley (1.39 miles)	149
The Batch (1.39 miles)	133
Shortwood (1.39 miles)	90

Where are the most violent places near New Cheltenham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Two Mile Hill	315
Cadbury Heath	236
New Cheltenham	200
Fishponds	189
Speedwell	170
Mangotsfield	127
Warmley Hill	108
Warmley	101
The Batch	59
Shortwood	45

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

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 New Cheltenham 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 New Cheltenham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Cheltenham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Cheltenham is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Frome Vale	84
2	Eastville	83
3	Hillfields	81
4	St George Central	78
5	Kingswood	70
6	Woodstock	68
7	Staple Hill & Mangotsfield	66
8	New Cheltenham	62
9	Parkwall & Warmley	60
10	Hanham	55
11	Longwell Green	31

Which road in New Cheltenham has the highest level of crime?

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