Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Cinderford records more violent crime than 89% of UK towns
Measured on crimes police recorded inside Cinderford’s built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026, it earns a Safety Grade of C−: #43 of 48 in Gloucestershire. Out of every 1,000 residents, 44.7 violent and sexual offences and 11.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are reported annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Cinderford
More crime than many places its size
Of 487 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000 people, Cinderford has the 403rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Axminster, Leominster and Brierfield, higher than Bolton upon Dearne, Radstock and Royston. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Cinderford’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,195 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Cinderford 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
Criminal damage & arson and public order sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 114 | 13 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 53 | 6 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 20 | 2.3 | 4.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 16 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 15 | 1.7 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 13 | 1.5 | 3.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 6 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 6 | 0.7 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 6 | 0.7 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 5 | 0.6 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 3 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
“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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Towns its size: Cinderford comes 403rd of 487
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | 6,763 | 9.6 | 5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 8 | Chalford Gloucestershire | 6,665 | 13.5 | 3.8 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 153 | Tetbury Gloucestershire | 6,454 | 23.1 | 8 | 4.6 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 188 | Cam Gloucestershire | 7,730 | 25.4 | 8 | 5.1 | B− |
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| 197 | Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire | 8,026 | 23.9 | 9.9 | 6.2 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 400 | Bolton upon Dearne South Yorkshire | 7,440 | 36.1 | 19.9 | 5.2 | C− |
| 401 | Radstock Somerset | 9,983 | 42.2 | 13.9 | 12.9 | C− |
| 402 | Royston South Yorkshire | 10,755 | 37.5 | 18.8 | 14.1 | C− |
| 403 | Cinderford Gloucestershire | 8,778 | 44.7 | 11.6 | 10.5 | C− |
| 404 | Runwell Essex | 8,086 | 36.4 | 20 | 10.5 | C− |
| 405 | Walton-on-the-Naze Essex | 6,980 | 40.4 | 16 | 11.7 | C− |
| 406 | Great Harwood Lancashire | 11,022 | 39.8 | 17.1 | 11.5 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 487 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | 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 Cinderford, and others in Gloucestershire.
Crime in Cinderford 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 4 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 4 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How Cinderford’s neighbourhoods rank in England
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 17% 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.
Cinderford’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.
Police in Cinderford identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 62% of Cinderford’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 8% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (78% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 4% 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. 544 crimes.
Where in Cinderford police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 142 | 47% violent |
| Supermarkets | 108 | 36% violent |
| Shopping areas | 48 | 38% anti-social behaviour |
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 Cinderford. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
One person died in collisions on Cinderford’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 39 collisions with injuries inside Cinderford in five years, in which one person died. 9 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Cinderford’s one death is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Cinderford’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 7 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Cinderford had 9.
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 Cinderford’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Cinderford
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinderford | 8,778 | 44.7 | 11.6 | C− |
| Ruspidge | 2,431 | 24 | 7 | B− |
| Drybrook | 2,572 | 29 | 7.4 | C+ |
| Newnham | 1,054 | 16.1 | 9.8 | B+ |
| Mitcheldean | 2,163 | 28.9 | 9 | C+ |
| Ruardean | 1,195 | 20.8 | 3.1 | B+ |
| Welsh Bicknor | 1,988 | 17.1 | 7.5 | B+ |
| Broadwell and Coalway | 3,304 | 25.4 | 7.8 | B− |
Cinderford records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Ruspidge, 1 miles away, records 24 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Cinderford’s 44.7.
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 Cinderford 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 Cinderford
Is Cinderford safe?
Police recorded 44.7 violent and sexual offences and 11.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Cinderford’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 15% of UK towns. Among 487 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000 people, Cinderford is 403rd from the least crime.
What is the most common crime in Cinderford?
Violence & sexual offences: 114 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (20) and shoplifting (16), with 53 reports of anti-social behaviour.
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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