Photo: Jongleur100 · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is lower in Painswick than in 73% of UK towns
From September 2023 to August 2026, crimes police recorded inside Painswick’s built-up area put it at B+ for safety. Add to that, it has less violent crime than 72% of UK towns, and less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 69%. Its police logs show 16.7 violent and sexual offences and 7.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Painswick
About the middle for a village its size
Of 1,214 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000 people, Painswick has the 587th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Kirkby Lonsdale, Cowbit and Welland, higher than St Erme and Trispen, Northleach and Chivenor and Wrafton. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Painswick’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 106 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Painswick 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 | 11 | 6 | 16.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 9 | 4.9 | 5.3 |
| Other crime | not graded | 2 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.5 | 3.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 1 | 0.5 | 2.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 1 | 0.5 | 2.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 0 | 0 | 1.6 |
| Drugs | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 0 | 0 | 1.5 |
| 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 Painswick 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 1 burglary, vehicle crime or act 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.
Set against 1,214 towns its size, Painswick is 587th
| # | 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 36 | Olveston Gloucestershire | 1,009 | 6.6 | 2.6 | 1.3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 192 | Avening Gloucestershire | 1,054 | 11.8 | 3.5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 584 | St Erme and Trispen Cornwall | 1,604 | 18.6 | 5.2 | 2.3 | B+ |
| 585 | Northleach Gloucestershire | 1,997 | 15.3 | 8.5 | 2.9 | B+ |
| 586 | Chivenor and Wrafton Devon | 1,953 | 20.5 | 3.4 | 3.4 | B+ |
| 587 | Painswick Gloucestershire | 1,833 | 16.7 | 7.2 | 2.3 | B+ |
| 588 | Shamley Green Surrey | 1,200 | 18.3 | 5.6 | 0.6 | B+ |
| 589 | Minster Lovell Oxfordshire | 1,270 | 14.4 | 9.5 | 3.2 | B+ |
| 590 | Ruardean Gloucestershire | 1,195 | 20.8 | 3.1 | 3.5 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 1214 | 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 Painswick, and others in Gloucestershire.
No one died in a collision on Painswick’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 7 collisions with injuries inside Painswick in five years. 3 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Painswick is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Painswick’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; Painswick had 3.
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 Painswick’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Painswick
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Painswick | 1,833 | 16.7 | 7.2 | B+ |
| Whiteshill and Randwick | 1,442 | 11.4 | 7.2 | A |
| Stroud | 26,073 | 38 | 20.2 | D |
| Upton St Leonards | 1,132 | 13.1 | 6.6 | A− |
| Brockworth | 12,007 | 38.6 | 8.9 | C− |
| Chalford | 6,665 | 13.5 | 3.8 | A |
| Brimscombe and Thrupp | 2,187 | 16.1 | 18.4 | B− |
| Quedgeley and Hardwicke | 21,125 | 32.8 | 7.4 | C+ |
Painswick records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Whiteshill and Randwick, 2.4 miles away, records 11.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Painswick’s 16.7.
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 Painswick 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 Painswick
Is Painswick safe?
Police recorded 16.7 violent and sexual offences and 7.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Painswick’s built-up area). That earns a B+ for safety: less crime per resident than 73% of UK towns. Among 1,214 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000 people, Painswick is 587th from the least crime.
What is the most common crime in Painswick?
Violence & sexual offences: 11 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other crime (2) and criminal damage & arson (1), with 9 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Painswick 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 Painswick’s 16.7 and 7.2, 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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