Photo: mattbuck ( category ) · CC BY-SA 3.0Violent crime per resident is lower in Highnam than in 91% of UK towns
For its size, it sits below 69% of the 1,541 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people on crime per resident. Highnam’s Safety Grade, A−, rests on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: less crime per resident than 84% of UK towns. Police counts work out at 11.0 violent and sexual offences and 8.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Highnam
Less crime than many places its size
Of 1,764 UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000 people, Highnam has the 509th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Upton St Leonards, Prestbury and Great Bardfield, higher than Langley Vale, Easebourne and Needingworth. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Highnam’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 91 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Highnam 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
Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 10 | 5.2 | 16.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 8 | 4.2 | 5.3 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 7 | 3.6 | 1.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 5 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 2 | 1 | 3.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 1 | 0.5 | 2.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.5 | 1.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 1 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.6 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
Crime in Highnam 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 5 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 1 shoplifting and theft report, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Of 1,764 towns its size, Highnam is 509th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 18 | Beachley Gloucestershire | 1,120 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 0.7 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 32 | Amberley Gloucestershire | 1,300 | 5.7 | 3.2 | 1.6 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 38 | Olveston Gloucestershire | 1,009 | 6.6 | 2.6 | 1.3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 233 | Avening Gloucestershire | 1,054 | 11.8 | 3.5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 506 | Langley Vale Surrey | 1,515 | 13.9 | 5.7 | 2.9 | A− |
| 507 | Easebourne West Sussex | 1,396 | 10.3 | 9.3 | 20.1 | A− |
| 508 | Needingworth Cambridgeshire | 2,059 | 14.3 | 5.3 | 2.9 | A− |
| 509 | Highnam Gloucestershire | 1,920 | 11 | 8.6 | 1.7 | A− |
| 510 | Yelverton Devon | 1,856 | 14.7 | 4.9 | 3.5 | A− |
| 511 | Wawne East Riding of Yorkshire | 1,021 | 12.5 | 7.2 | 2.6 | A− |
| 512 | Bathford Somerset | 1,153 | 12.4 | 7.2 | 1.4 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 1764 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | 1,928 | 259 | 64.7 | 57.2 | 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 Highnam, and others in Gloucestershire.
No one died in a collision on Highnam’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 0 collisions with injuries inside Highnam in five years. 0 people were killed or seriously injured.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Highnam is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Highnam’s size at the median for UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people would see about 1 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Highnam had 0.
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 Highnam’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Highnam
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highnam | 1,920 | 11 | 8.6 | A− |
| Moor End | 1,168 | 11.3 | 4.3 | A |
| Longford | 2,536 | 21.7 | 6.2 | B |
| Gloucester | 118,562 | 58.3 | 17.1 | D |
| Quedgeley and Hardwicke | 21,125 | 32.8 | 7.4 | C+ |
| Huntley | 1,152 | 11.5 | 5 | A |
| Churchdown | 13,480 | 27.5 | 6 | B− |
| Upton St Leonards | 1,132 | 13.1 | 6.6 | A− |
Highnam records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Moor End, 1.8 miles away, records 11.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Highnam’s 11.
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 Highnam 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 Highnam
Is Highnam safe?
Police recorded 11 violent and sexual offences and 8.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Highnam’s built-up area). That earns an A− for safety: less crime per resident than 84% of UK towns. Among 1,764 UK towns of 1,000 to 3,000 people, Highnam is 509th from the least crime.
What is the most common crime in Highnam?
Violence & sexual offences: 10 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (7) and public order (5), with 8 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Highnam 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 Highnam’s 11 and 8.6, 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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