Crime rates in Bishop's Cleeve

The safest and worst parts of Bishop's Cleeve

Neighbourhoods inside Bishop's Cleeve, by recorded crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to July 2026, shaded against the England and Wales average. Names are the House of Commons Library's, which are chosen to be the ones local people use.

Neighbourhoods here are Middle Layer Super Output Areas of around 7,000 residents. Each figure is an average over the whole neighbourhood, and the ones holding a town centre run high wherever daily visitors outnumber residents. How the figures work explains why these areas are used rather than electoral wards.

By type of offence

Recorded offences in the 12 months to July 2026, with the change on the 12 months before.

Home Office recorded crime, data.police.uk. Rates use ONS mid-2024 population estimates (17,168 residents). Categories are the Home Office crime types as published; they are not comparable with court or conviction figures.

What happened to those crimes

Police recorded 306 offences other than anti-social behaviour in Bishop's Cleeve in the year to July 2026. By the time this data was published, about 30% had been closed with no suspect identified and 35% closed because a prosecution was not possible or not pursued. Around 7% had led to a charge, caution or other formal action, and 28% were still open.

Outcomes describe where each investigation stood when the data was published, so recent offences are naturally still open and the closed shares will edge up as cases conclude. Anti-social behaviour is left out entirely: police record no outcomes for it, and counting it would quietly flatter every percentage here. "Formal action" spans charges, summonses, cautions, penalty notices and community resolutions.

Over time

Recorded crime in Bishop's Cleeve fell to a low of 626 offences in 2015, climbed to a peak of 983 in 2024, and the latest 12 months, at 405, sit about 59% below that peak.

Across 15 years of data, May has been Bishop's Cleeve's busiest month for recorded crime and February its quietest, about 31% apart.

Download every month as CSV, including which months each force filed.

Streets and the crime map

The named streets with the most recorded offences in the year to July 2026, beside every mapped location in Bishop's Cleeve.

Compared with nearby areas

Crime in context

What deprivation would predict

Across every English district, deprivation explains much of the difference in recorded crime rates. On that relationship alone, Bishop's Cleeve's level of deprivation would predict a rate of about 63 per 1,000. It records 23.6, about 63% below it.

How tightly packed it is

1,880 people per square kilometre, across 9 km². England and Wales averages about 400 people per square kilometre. Density is the usual explanation for a high position in the national crime table: a rate divides the crime of everyone who passes through by the number who sleep there.

Officers to record it

Gloucestershire Constabulary had 1,355 full-time equivalent officers as at 31 March 2026, 2.02 per 1,000 residents, below the England and Wales figure of 2.42. That is 26% above its low point of 1,073 in 2018. Recorded crime partly measures how much policing there is to record it, so a change in officer numbers moves the figures on this page even when nothing else does.

Officer numbers are full-time equivalents from the Home Office police workforce return, counted across the whole force area. Nothing in this section causes anything on this page: a correlation is not a cause.

Stop and search

Gloucestershire Constabulary carried out 1,138 stop and searches in the 12 months to July 2026, 1.7 per 1,000 people in the force area. 35.9% ended in an arrest or another sanction, against 28.9% across England and Wales. The rest found nothing.

Stop and search is recorded for the whole force area rather than by town, so it is set out in full on the Gloucestershire Constabulary page.

Every force compared, and how searches break down by the ethnicity officers recorded, is on stop and search by ethnicity.

Who oversees policing in Bishop's Cleeve

Policing in Bishop's Cleeve is overseen by the police and crime commissioner for Gloucestershire Constabulary. Chris Nelson (Conservative) won that election in May 2024.

Councils in England and Wales have no policing powers. The police force covering an area is answerable to a directly elected commissioner, or to the combined authority mayor where that office has taken the role on. The coloured strip under the trend chart shows these terms against the crime line.

The change column reports what recorded crime did across each term, because it is the first thing a reader wants from this table. It is what happened, not what the officeholder caused: recorded crime moves with reporting rules, how a force records what is reported, national policy and a pandemic, and those effects are far larger than anything one commissioner does in four years. The terms spanning 2020 and 2021 in particular contain the lockdowns, which cut recorded crime everywhere and handed the following term the rebound.

These are election results, not terms of office: commissioners resign, die and are disqualified mid-term, and by-elections between the scheduled polls are listed here only where one has been held. For who holds the office today, the force's own website is the authority. The last column compares recorded crime in the 12 months ending at the handover (or the latest data) with the 12 months ending at the election itself; where a monthly return is missing, the window slides by up to four months to the nearest complete one. A dash means the term ran under a year or no complete window exists near it.

Questions

Is Bishop's Cleeve safe?

In the year to July 2026, the recorded crime rate in Bishop's Cleeve was 23.6 per 1,000 residents. That is 74% lower than the England and Wales average. A recorded crime rate measures what the police recorded, across a whole town. It says nothing about any particular street, and areas with busy town centres, shopping areas or nightlife record more crime per resident because far more people are present than live there.

Is crime in Bishop's Cleeve going up or down?

In Bishop's Cleeve, the latest 12 months are 55.0% lower than the 12 before. Over the full series, recorded crime here peaked at 983 offences in 2024 and the current total is about 59% below it.

What is the most common crime in Bishop's Cleeve?

The most commonly recorded offence in Bishop's Cleeve is violence and sexual offences, with 156 offences in the 12 months to July 2026 (39% of all recorded crime). The next most common is anti-social behaviour, with 99.

Where does this come from?

Police recorded crime open data, published at data.police.uk by the Home Office under the Open Government Licence. It covers offences the police recorded, which is not the same as offences committed: crimes that are never reported never appear. Rates use ONS mid-2024 population estimates. How the figures work sets out the calculation, the reporting lag and every known gap.