Outbuilding and Horse Engine House, Circa 15 Metres North of the Tithe Barn at Brockwell Court · Photo: DIaNyf8q · CC0Brockworth records more violent crime per head than 83% of UK towns
In sum, crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 put Brockworth at C− (#37 of 48 in Gloucestershire): more crime per resident than 76% of UK towns. Year on year, 38.6 violent and sexual offences and 8.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur per 1,000 residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Brockworth
More crime than many places its size
Of 428 UK towns of 8,000 to 16,000 people, Brockworth has the 278th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Brynteg, Hoo St Werburgh and New Ollerton and Ollerton, higher than Ludlow, Stoke Gifford and Cullompton. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Brockworth’s C− for safety
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,379 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Brockworth against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Other theft and public order sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 167 | 13.9 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 87 | 7.2 | 12.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 23 | 1.9 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 19 | 1.6 | 5.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 16 | 1.3 | 4.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 8 | 0.7 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 8 | 0.7 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 8 | 0.7 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 7 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 4 | 0.3 | 6.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 2 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
“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.
How Brockworth’s neighbourhoods rank in England
13% 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.
Brockworth’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.
Crime in Brockworth per 1,000 residents
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 3 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.
Of 428 towns its size, Brockworth is 278th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 65 | Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne Gloucestershire | 14,969 | 20.3 | 8.5 | 8.6 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 127 | Churchdown Gloucestershire | 13,480 | 27.5 | 6 | 6.8 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 136 | Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire | 8,026 | 23.9 | 9.9 | 6.2 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 182 | Thornbury Gloucestershire | 14,483 | 30 | 8.1 | 6.8 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 275 | Ludlow Shropshire | 10,037 | 31 | 16.1 | 17.7 | C |
| 276 | Stoke Gifford Gloucestershire | 13,477 | 34.3 | 12.9 | 21.1 | C |
| 277 | Cullompton Devon | 8,895 | 37.4 | 10 | 9.9 | C− |
| 278 | Brockworth Gloucestershire | 12,007 | 38.6 | 8.9 | 7.7 | C− |
| 279 | Enniskillen Fermanagh and Omagh | 14,086 | 33.3 | 14.3 | 13 | C− |
| 280 | Shepshed Leicestershire | 14,873 | 32.1 | 15.5 | 10.4 | C− |
| 281 | Bursledon Hampshire | 8,072 | 33.8 | 14 | 11.4 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 428 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | D− |
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 Brockworth, and others in Gloucestershire.
Lowest recorded crime in Painswick and Upton, Brockworth West and Churchdown Brookfield with Hucclecote; highest in Brockworth East
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Painswick and Upton | 1,749 | 21 | 4.2 | |
| Brockworth West | 4,717 | 24.3 | 4.6 | |
| Churchdown Brookfield with Hucclecote | 1,609 | 29 | 5.2 | |
| Brockworth East | 3,932 | 44.7 | 12.4 |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Brockworth East records 1.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Brockworth.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Brockworth’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 68% of Brockworth’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 7% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (67% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 9% of violent and 7% 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. 611 crimes.
Three people died in collisions on Brockworth’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 53 collisions with injuries inside Brockworth in five years, in which three people died. 19 people were killed or seriously injured: 6 on foot and 4 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 Brockworth’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Brockworth’s own rate (5.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Brockworth had 31.7 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
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 Brockworth’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Brockworth
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brockworth | 12,007 | 38.6 | 8.9 | C− |
| Upton St Leonards | 1,132 | 13.1 | 6.6 | A− |
| Shurdington | 1,888 | 18 | 6.1 | B+ |
| Gloucester | 118,562 | 58.3 | 17.1 | D |
| Churchdown | 13,480 | 27.5 | 6 | B− |
| Longford | 2,536 | 21.7 | 6.2 | B |
| Painswick | 1,833 | 16.7 | 7.2 | B+ |
| Cheltenham | 115,941 | 35.2 | 17.3 | C− |
Brockworth records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Gloucester and Cheltenham record more. Upton St Leonards, 1.6 miles away, records 13.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Brockworth’s 38.6.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
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 Brockworth 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 Brockworth
Is Brockworth safe?
Police recorded 38.6 violent and sexual offences and 8.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Brockworth’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 24% of UK towns. Among 428 UK towns of 8,000 to 16,000 people, Brockworth is 278th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Brockworth?
By council ward, Painswick and Upton, Brockworth West and Churchdown Brookfield with Hucclecote record the least violent and household crime per resident: 21, 24.3 and 29 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 44.7 in Brockworth East.
What is the most common crime in Brockworth?
Violence & sexual offences: 167 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (23) and public order (19), with 87 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Brockworth 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 Brockworth’s 38.6 and 8.9, 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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