Photo: Maretinevans123 · CC BY-SA 3.0Nailsworth records more violent crime per head than 71% of UK towns
Its police logs show 31.5 violent and sexual offences and 10.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year. The Safety Grade comes out at C, drawn from crimes police recorded inside Nailsworth’s built-up area through September 2023 to August 2026: #32 of 48 in Gloucestershire. Measured against the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, 30% of them record more crime per resident.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Nailsworth
More crime than many places its size
Of 628 UK towns of 4,000 to 8,000 people, Nailsworth has the 434th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Netley, Crigglestone and Durkar and Gowerton, higher than Shiremoor, Blidworth and Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Nailsworth’s C for safety
A fairly firm grade. Built on 570 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Nailsworth against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How Nailsworth’s neighbourhoods rank in England
27% 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.
Nailsworth’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Violence & sexual offences and criminal damage & arson sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 61 | 10.8 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 29 | 5.1 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 12 | 2.1 | 4.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 11 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 9 | 1.6 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 9 | 1.6 | 3.2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 7 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 5 | 0.9 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 4 | 0.7 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 3 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| 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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Set against 628 towns its size, Nailsworth is 434th
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 23 | Chalford Gloucestershire | 6,665 | 13.5 | 3.8 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 27 | Prestbury Gloucestershire | 4,078 | 10.9 | 6.8 | 3.9 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 59 | Fairford Gloucestershire | 4,240 | 14.3 | 6.4 | 4.4 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 70 | Winchcombe Gloucestershire | 4,339 | 13.8 | 8 | 7.2 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 431 | Shiremoor Tyne and Wear | 6,965 | 27.8 | 13.7 | 17 | C |
| 432 | Blidworth Nottinghamshire | 4,295 | 29.5 | 12.1 | 24.7 | C |
| 433 | Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Staffordshire | 6,798 | 31.3 | 10.3 | 8.2 | C |
| 434 | Nailsworth Gloucestershire | 5,657 | 31.5 | 10.2 | 8.3 | C |
| 435 | Clayton West and Scissett West Yorkshire | 4,382 | 29.9 | 11.8 | 10.5 | C |
| 436 | Shefford Bedfordshire | 7,317 | 27 | 14.9 | 28.1 | C |
| 437 | Hungerford Berkshire | 5,184 | 29.4 | 12.6 | 9.4 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 628 | 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 Nailsworth, and others in Gloucestershire.
Crime in Nailsworth 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.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 70% of Nailsworth’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 15% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (75% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 4% of violent and 0% 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. 239 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Nailsworth’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 22 collisions with injuries inside Nailsworth in five years. 7 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 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, and Nailsworth is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Nailsworth’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 5 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Nailsworth had 7.
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 Nailsworth’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Nailsworth
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nailsworth | 5,657 | 31.5 | 10.2 | C |
| Amberley | 1,300 | 5.7 | 3.2 | A+ |
| Minchinhampton | 3,412 | 15.6 | 7.8 | B+ |
| Brimscombe and Thrupp | 2,187 | 16.1 | 18.4 | B− |
| Avening | 1,054 | 11.8 | 3.5 | A |
| Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley | 3,584 | 14.3 | 3.9 | A |
| Stroud | 26,073 | 38 | 20.2 | D |
| Chalford | 6,665 | 13.5 | 3.8 | A |
Nailsworth records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Stroud records more. Amberley, 1.3 miles away, records 5.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Nailsworth’s 31.5.
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 Nailsworth 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 Nailsworth
Is Nailsworth safe?
Police recorded 31.5 violent and sexual offences and 10.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Nailsworth’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 32% of UK towns. Among 628 UK towns of 4,000 to 8,000 people, Nailsworth is 434th from the least crime.
What is the most common crime in Nailsworth?
Violence & sexual offences: 61 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (12) and shoplifting (11), with 29 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Nailsworth compare with Stroud?
Stroud records 38 violent and sexual offences and 20.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Nailsworth’s 31.5 and 10.2, 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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