Council area

Cheltenham crime statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 6,403 street-crime records for the Cheltenham council area from August 2025 to August 2026. At least one month between August 2025 and August 2026 is missing from the published records. Police locations are approximate.

These figures cover the whole area Cheltenham council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Cheltenham: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.

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Last 12 published months

August 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

6,403

Latest month (August 2026)

Year-on-year

n/a

Month-by-month totals

1.1k

Aug

1.1k

Sep

1.1k

Oct

1.1k

Nov

1.0k

Dec

1.0k

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Striped bars: only some of the forces here published that month, so its count is incomplete. The table names the force.

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Month	Street-crime records
August 2025	1,097
September 2025	1,058
October 2025	1,095
November 2025	1,094
December 2025	1,020
January 2026	1,004
February 2026	6 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026	3 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026	6 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026	9 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026	0 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026	5 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026	6 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

At least one month is missing from the last 12 months of published records here, so no rate is shown for a full year.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of the Cheltenham council area's records in the same trailing window. No England and Wales comparison, because a month is missing here.

Where records cluster in the Cheltenham council area

Records by part of the Cheltenham council area: the north-east 1,325, the north-west 1,227, the east 1,063, the west 918, the north 700, the south-east 436, the south-west 369, the south 350, the centre 20.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of the Cheltenham council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Cheltenham council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Cheltenham council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Striped months add only the records that were published. Explore the Cheltenham council area on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for the Cheltenham council area (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	11,570
2022	13,057
2023	13,353
2024	11,742
2025	12,162
2026 (part year)	1,039

Police forces

The Cheltenham council area's records from August 2025 to August 2026 were published by Gloucestershire Constabulary (99.2%), Staffordshire Police (0.3%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.2%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Leicestershire Police (0.0%), South Wales Police (0.0%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.0%), Warwickshire Police (0.0%) and Wiltshire Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000078), which can differ from the place people call Cheltenham.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Cheltenham. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode.
Full detail is on the methodology page.

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Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.

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Council areas that share a postcode district with this one.

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CrimeMapsUK. Cheltenham council area: published street-crime records, 12 published months between August 2025 and August 2026, with at least one month in between missing. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/council-areas/cheltenham/