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BSafety Grade
Safety in Bishop's Cleeve · police.uk, 2023–2026

Set against UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Bishop's Cleeve records less crime than 89%

Annual rates stand at 21.0 violent and sexual offences and 7.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents.

Violent crime
21
per 1,000 residents a year · graded
Homes & vehicles
7.5
burglary, vehicle crime, damage · graded
Shoplifting & theft
7
per 1,000 a year · not graded
Anti-social behaviour
14.8
reports per 1,000 a year · not graded

Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.

What stands out · In brief

What stands out about safety in Bishop's Cleeve

Less crime than most places its size

Of 364 UK towns of 11,000 to 22,000 people, Bishop's Cleeve has the 46th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Herne, Neston and Gillingham, higher than Bradwell, Amersham and Knutsford. Towns its size ↓

Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally

The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 20% of Bishop's Cleeve’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓

Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.

Safety Grade

Bishop's Cleeve: B for safety, and why

Compared with UK towns its sizeLess crime per resident than 89% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: less crime than most for its size. Context only, not part of the grade.
Violent and sexual offences (21 per 1,000 a year, 3-year average)Less crime than 56% of UK towns
Homes and vehicles (7.5 per 1,000 a year, 3-year average)Less crime than 66% of UK towns
BB

A firm grade. Built on 1,125 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Bishop's Cleeve against every UK town of 1,000 or more.

Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.

By type

What police recorded in the last 12 months

Violence & sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour4.8
Burglary1.4
Criminal damage & arson1.2
Other theft1.2
Public order1.2
Vehicle crime1.2
Shoplifting0.9
Other crime0.6
Drugs0.4
Possession of weapons0.1
Robbery0.1
Bicycle theft0
Theft from the person0
Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Not gradedTypical town its size

Public order and criminal damage & arson sit below it.

Show as a table
CategoryIn the gradeReportsPer 1,000Typical
Violence & sexual offencesViolent130830.4
Anti-social behaviournot graded794.812.4
BurglaryHome & vehicle231.42.4
Criminal damage & arsonHome & vehicle201.26.2
Other theftnot graded201.24.4
Public ordernot graded191.25.4
Vehicle crimeHome & vehicle191.22.8
Shopliftingnot graded140.96.1
Other crimenot graded90.61.8
Drugsnot graded60.41.9
Possession of weaponsViolent20.10.7
RobberyViolent10.10.5
Bicycle theftnot graded000.3
Theft from the personnot graded000.3

“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.

September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.

Neighbourhoods · England-wide rank

1 in 5 Bishop's Cleeve residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods

0%1
0%2
0%3
0%4
8%5
25%6
9%7
16%8
23%9
20%10
Higher crimeLower crime

59% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.

Bishop's Cleeve’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.

Towns its size

Bishop's Cleeve places 46th of 364 towns its size, the least crime first

#TownPeopleViolentHomes & vehiclesShops & theftSafety
1Kesgrave Suffolk14,947133.32.7A
…
43Bradwell Norfolk11,63219.38.86.3B
44Amersham Buckinghamshire17,37718.69.79.5B
45Knutsford Cheshire13,25421.27.38.4B
46Bishop's Cleeve Gloucestershire16,323217.57B
47Kingsteignton Devon11,945208.66.8B
48Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne Gloucestershire14,96920.38.58.6B
49Carterton Oxfordshire17,95122.96.25.9B
…
92Churchdown Gloucestershire13,48027.566.8B−
…
137Thornbury Gloucestershire14,483308.16.8C+
…
156Quedgeley and Hardwicke Gloucestershire21,12532.87.47.4C+
…
194Cirencester Gloucestershire17,71534.110.520C
…
364Haverfordwest Dyfed12,08891.428.632.3D−

Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.

Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Bishop's Cleeve, and others in Gloucestershire.

What happened next

Police in Bishop's Cleeve identify a suspect less often than across UK towns

Violent crime
Bishop's Cleeve
All UK towns
Homes & vehicles
Bishop's Cleeve
All UK towns
Went to courtSuspect identified, unable to prosecuteNo suspect identifiedCaution, local resolution, otherStill open

No suspect was identified for 77% of Bishop's Cleeve’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 10% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (71% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 5% of household crimes reached court.

The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 499 crimes.

Where in Bishop's Cleeve

Lowest recorded crime in Cleeve Hill, Cleeve West and Cleeve Grange; highest in Cleeve St Michael's

By ward per 1,000 a year
WardResidentsViolentHomes & vehicles
Cleeve Hill2,5429.25.5
Cleeve West4,75012.14
Cleeve Grange3,07017.56.7
Cleeve St Michael's5,96123.87.6
ViolentHomes & vehicles
Public places police.uk named crimes and ASB, 3 years
At or nearReportsMostly
Supermarkets13442% shoplifting & theft
Petrol stations6090% shoplifting & theft
Shopping areas4035% shoplifting & theft

A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Cleeve St Michael's records 1.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Bishop's Cleeve. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Bishop's Cleeve. We show only these, never streets or homes.

Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Bishop's Cleeve’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.

1,000 residents · one year

Crime in Bishop's Cleeve per 1,000 residents

Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Shoplifting & theft (not graded)
133
violent and sexual offences, 12 months to August 2026
62
homes & vehicles
34
shoplifting & theft
14
of the three, per 1,000

A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.

And about 4 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 2 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.

On the roads

No one died in a collision on Bishop's Cleeve’s roads in 2021–2025

Police recorded 29 collisions with injuries inside Bishop's Cleeve in five years. 3 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.

That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bishop's Cleeve’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bishop's Cleeve’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

Counting serious injuries too, a town of Bishop's Cleeve’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 19 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Bishop's Cleeve had 3.

0
people killed, 2021–2025
3
killed or seriously injured
1
of them on foot
0
of them on a bicycle

Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.

Collisions police recorded inside Bishop's Cleeve’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.

Neighbours

Crime in the places around Bishop's Cleeve

ABCD
TownPeopleViolentHomes & vehiclesSafety
Bishop's Cleeve16,323217.5B
Gotherington1,1319.55.9A
Prestbury4,07810.96.8A
Cheltenham115,94135.217.3C−
Ashchurch1,10211.64.5A
Winchcombe4,33913.88A−
Tewkesbury14,38732.812.2C
Northway4,85826.99C+

Bishop's Cleeve records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Gotherington, 1.1 miles away, records 9.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Bishop's Cleeve’s 21.

Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Some months are short. Gloucestershire Police published February 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026, June 2026, July 2026 and August 2026 only in part or not at all. Those months are left out of the rates, which average the months that were published in full; the raw counts include what was published.
  • Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
  • Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Bishop's Cleeve sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
  • Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.

Questions about safety in Bishop's Cleeve

Is Bishop's Cleeve safe?

Police recorded 21 violent and sexual offences and 7.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Bishop's Cleeve’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 60% of UK towns. Among 364 UK towns of 11,000 to 22,000 people, Bishop's Cleeve is 46th from the least crime. 20% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.

What are the safest areas of Bishop's Cleeve?

By council ward, Cleeve Hill, Cleeve West and Cleeve Grange record the least violent and household crime per resident: 9.2, 12.1 and 17.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 23.8 in Cleeve St Michael's.

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

Violence & sexual offences: 130 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came burglary (23) and criminal damage & arson (20), with 79 reports of anti-social behaviour.

How does Bishop's Cleeve compare with Gloucester?

Gloucester records 58.3 violent and sexual offences and 17.1 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Bishop's Cleeve’s 21 and 7.5, over the same three years.

Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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