Photo: Air1jwilkins1212 · CC BY-SA 3.0Burglary, vehicle crime and damage per resident is higher in Stroud than in 92% of UK towns
It has less crime per resident than 24% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Scored on crimes police recorded inside Stroud’s built-up area across September 2023 to August 2026, the town lands on D for safety: #45 of 48 in Gloucestershire. In a usual year, 38.0 violent and sexual offences and 20.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are logged per 1,000 inhabitants.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Stroud
One ward carries much of the rate
Stroud Central ward, where 57% of Stroud’s shoplifting and theft is recorded, recorded 671 of Stroud’s 2,398 violent and sexual offences in three years: 105.2 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Stroud the figure is 24.3. Where in Stroud ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 242 UK towns of 18,000 to 35,000 people, Stroud has the 170th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Waltham Abbey, Winsford and Nelson, higher than Bedworth, Hebburn and Buxton. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Stroud’s D for safety
A fairly firm grade. Built on 3,667 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Stroud against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Police in Stroud identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 40% of Stroud’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 14% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (67% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 17% 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. 1,768 crimes.
Lowest recorded crime in Rodborough, Cainscross and Stroud Uplands; highest in Stroud Central
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rodborough | 4,101 | 15.4 | 10.9 | |
| Cainscross | 7,829 | 19.4 | 7.1 | |
| Stroud Uplands | 2,068 | 19.3 | 12.9 | |
| Stroud Farmhill and Paganhill | 2,481 | 34 | 8.7 | |
| Stroud Trinity | 2,179 | 18.7 | 25.1 | |
| Stroud Valley | 2,223 | 34.6 | 28.2 | |
| Stroud Slade | 2,395 | 45 | 21.3 | |
| Stroud Central | 2,127 | 105.2 | 46.7 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 545 | 55% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 348 | 66% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 249 | 41% anti-social behaviour |
| Petrol stations | 41 | 29% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 40 | 45% violent |
| Bus and coach stations | 36 | 44% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Stroud Central records 4.3× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Stroud. 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 Stroud. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Stroud’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Public order and criminal damage & arson sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 359 | 13.8 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 248 | 9.5 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 139 | 5.3 | 6.1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 63 | 2.4 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 63 | 2.4 | 2.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 62 | 2.4 | 6.2 |
| Public order | not graded | 60 | 2.3 | 5.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 43 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 38 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 25 | 1 | 1.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 7 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 7 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 5 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0 | 0.3 |
“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.
Crime in Stroud 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 6 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 8 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Stroud against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 29 | Bradley Stoke Gloucestershire | 25,194 | 23.9 | 8.1 | 7.9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 85 | Quedgeley and Hardwicke Gloucestershire | 21,125 | 32.8 | 7.4 | 7.4 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 137 | Yate Gloucestershire | 28,352 | 38.4 | 12.7 | 13.2 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 167 | Bedworth Warwickshire | 31,083 | 38.8 | 18.1 | 19.2 | D |
| 168 | Hebburn Tyne and Wear | 21,341 | 37.9 | 19.2 | 10.6 | D |
| 169 | Buxton Derbyshire | 20,048 | 43.8 | 14.1 | 17.1 | D |
| 170 | Stroud Gloucestershire | 26,073 | 38 | 20.2 | 18.1 | D |
| 171 | Skelmersdale Lancashire | 34,921 | 41.5 | 17.2 | 9.9 | D |
| 172 | Houghton Regis Bedfordshire | 18,814 | 40.5 | 18.4 | 11.5 | D |
| 173 | Thetford Norfolk | 25,502 | 43.9 | 15.7 | 12.4 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 242 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | 28,979 | 105 | 32.9 | 33.7 | 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 Stroud, and others in Gloucestershire.
How Stroud’s neighbourhoods rank in England
27% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 13% 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.
Stroud’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.
One person died in collisions on Stroud’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 106 collisions with injuries inside Stroud in five years, in which one person died. 26 people were killed or seriously injured: 8 on foot and 7 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 Stroud’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Stroud’s own rate (0.8) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Stroud had 19.9 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).
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 Stroud’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Stroud
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud | 26,073 | 38 | 20.2 | D |
| Whiteshill and Randwick | 1,442 | 11.4 | 7.2 | A |
| Amberley | 1,300 | 5.7 | 3.2 | A+ |
| Brimscombe and Thrupp | 2,187 | 16.1 | 18.4 | B− |
| Stonehouse | 8,302 | 38.8 | 11.6 | C− |
| Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley | 3,584 | 14.3 | 3.9 | A |
| Chalford | 6,665 | 13.5 | 3.8 | A |
| Painswick | 1,833 | 16.7 | 7.2 | B+ |
Stroud records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Whiteshill and Randwick, 1.4 miles away, records 11.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Stroud’s 38.
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 Stroud 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 Stroud
Is Stroud safe?
Police recorded 38 violent and sexual offences and 20.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Stroud’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 13% of UK towns. Among 242 UK towns of 18,000 to 35,000 people, Stroud is 170th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Stroud?
By council ward, Rodborough, Cainscross and Stroud Uplands record the least violent and household crime per resident: 15.4, 19.4 and 19.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 105.2 in Stroud Central.
What is the most common crime in Stroud?
Violence & sexual offences: 359 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (139) and other theft (63), with 248 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Stroud 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 Stroud’s 38 and 20.2, 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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