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BSafety Grade
Safety in Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne · police.uk, 2023–2026

Per resident, Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne sees less crime than 88% of UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people

Recorded violence held steady in a year. Across all the graded crimes, Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne lands on B (#13 of 48 in Gloucestershire): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. The typical town its size sees 2.4 cases of burglary per 1,000 residents; Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne sees 4.4, or 66 in the 12 months to August 2026. The local count comes to 20.3 violent and sexual offences and 8.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people each year.

Violent crime
20.3
per 1,000 residents a year · graded
Homes & vehicles
8.5
burglary, vehicle crime, damage · graded
Shoplifting & theft
8.6
per 1,000 a year · not graded
Anti-social behaviour
4.9
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 Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne

Less crime than most places its size

Of 372 UK towns of 10,000 to 20,000 people, Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne has the 52nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Neston, Gillingham and Sherborne, higher than Knutsford, Bishop's Cleeve and Kingsteignton. 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. 35% of Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’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

What sits behind Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’s B

Compared with UK towns its sizeLess crime per resident than 88% 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 (20.3 per 1,000 a year, 3-year average)Less crime than 58% of UK towns
Homes and vehicles (8.5 per 1,000 a year, 3-year average)Less crime than 59% of UK towns
BB

A firm grade. Built on 1,291 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne 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 offences20.8
Anti-social behaviour6.4
Burglary4.4
Public order3.5
Other theft2.9
Criminal damage & arson2.7
Vehicle crime2.6
Shoplifting1.3
Other crime1.1
Drugs0.6
Robbery0.3
Possession of weapons0.2
Bicycle theft0.1
Theft from the person0.1
Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Not gradedTypical town its size

Against the typical town its size, Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne runs highest on burglary (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.4). Criminal damage & arson and shoplifting sit below it.

Show as a table
CategoryIn the gradeReportsPer 1,000Typical
Violence & sexual offencesViolent31220.830.4
Anti-social behaviournot graded966.412.4
BurglaryHome & vehicle664.42.4
Public ordernot graded523.55.4
Other theftnot graded442.94.4
Criminal damage & arsonHome & vehicle402.76.2
Vehicle crimeHome & vehicle392.62.8
Shopliftingnot graded201.36.1
Other crimenot graded171.11.8
Drugsnot graded90.61.9
RobberyViolent50.30.5
Possession of weaponsViolent30.20.7
Bicycle theftnot graded20.10.3
Theft from the personnot graded10.10.3

“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.

What happened next

Police in Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne identify a suspect more often than across UK towns

Violent crime
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne
All UK towns
Homes & vehicles
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne
All UK towns
Went to courtSuspect identified, unable to prosecuteNo suspect identifiedCaution, local resolution, otherStill open

No suspect was identified for 2% of Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 1% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (55% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 4% 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. 411 crimes.

Neighbourhoods · England-wide rank

A third of Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne residents live in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods

0%1
0%2
0%3
0%4
8%5
17%6
10%7
7%8
23%9
35%10
Higher crimeLower crime

64% 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.

Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’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

Among 372 towns its size, Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne ranks 52nd for the least graded crime

#TownPeopleViolentHomes & vehiclesShops & theftSafety
1Kesgrave Suffolk14,947133.32.7A
…
49Knutsford Cheshire13,25421.27.38.4B
50Bishop's Cleeve Gloucestershire16,323217.57B
51Kingsteignton Devon11,945208.66.8B
52Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne Gloucestershire14,96920.38.58.6B
53Godalming Surrey10,45020.38.710B
54Carterton Oxfordshire17,95122.96.25.9B
55Herne Kent14,87421.77.65B
…
103Churchdown Gloucestershire13,48027.566.8B−
…
149Thornbury Gloucestershire14,483308.16.8C+
…
212Cirencester Gloucestershire17,71534.110.520C
…
217Tewkesbury Gloucestershire14,38732.812.216.2C
…
372Haverfordwest 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 Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne, and others in Gloucestershire.

Trend · monthly

How crime in Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne has moved

“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).

Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +4% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +37% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -27% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +26% (towns its size -4%).

1,000 residents · one year

Crime in Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne per 1,000 residents

Violent (graded)Homes & vehicles (graded)Shoplifting & theft (not graded)
320
violent and sexual offences, 12 months to August 2026
145
homes & vehicles
67
shoplifting & theft
35
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 10 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.

On the roads

No one died in a collision on Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’s roads in 2021–2025

Police recorded 58 collisions with injuries inside Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne in five years. 14 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 on foot and 3 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 Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

Counting serious injuries too, Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne had 18.8 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).

0
people killed, 2021–2025
14
killed or seriously injured
3
of them on foot
3
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 Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.

Neighbours

Crime in the places around Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne

ABCD
TownPeopleViolentHomes & vehiclesSafety
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne14,96920.38.5B
Stoke Gifford13,47734.312.9C
Yate28,35238.412.7C−
Bradley Stoke25,19423.98.1B−
Pucklechurch2,70223.610.1B−
Chipping Sodbury8,02623.99.9B−
Filton10,95543.422.4D
Kingswood and Fishponds160,2803613.4C−

Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne records less graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table.

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

  • 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 Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne 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 Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne

Is Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne safe?

Police recorded 20.3 violent and sexual offences and 8.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 59% of UK towns. Among 372 UK towns of 10,000 to 20,000 people, Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne is 52nd from the least crime. 35% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.

Is crime going up in Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne?

In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 37%, shoplifting and theft fell 27% and anti-social behaviour rose 26%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.

What is the most common crime in Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne?

Violence & sexual offences: 312 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came burglary (66) and public order (52), with 96 reports of anti-social behaviour.

How does Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne compare with Bristol?

Bristol records 55.3 violent and sexual offences and 25.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne’s 20.3 and 8.5, 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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