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Cotswold crime statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,225 street-crime records for the Cotswold council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 56.6% fewer than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Cotswold council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Cotswold: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
2,225
Latest month (August 2026)
4
Year-on-year
-56.6%
Month-by-month totals
4600
440
Sep
424
Oct
456
Nov
460
Dec
408
Jan
8
Feb
2
Mar
7
Apr
5
May
3
Jun
8
Jul
4
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
September 2025
440
October 2025
424
November 2025
456
December 2025
460
January 2026
408
February 2026
8 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026
2 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026
7 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026
5 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026
3 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026
8 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026
4 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Cotswold council area is policed by Gloucestershire Constabulary, and our tables hold its records for only 5 of these 12 months. Counted against all of Cotswold council area's residents, its records would understate the rate, so no rate is shown.
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 Cotswold council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences34.2%
760 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour18.7%
416 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting10.2%
228 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Criminal damage and arson8.0%
179 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft7.2%
161 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary6.5%
144 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Public order5.0%
112 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Vehicle crime3.9%
86 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the Cotswold council area
Held back: the Cotswold council area's postcodes spread so far that even the crime map's zoomed-out hexagons would draw too small on a phone to read as areas. Explore the Cotswold council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Cotswold council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000079), which can differ from the place people call Cotswold.
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 Cotswold. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode.
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.