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Forest of Dean crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,025 street-crime records for the Forest of Dean council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 63.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 23.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Forest of Dean council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Forest of Dean: 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
2,025
Latest month (August 2026)
8
Year-on-year
-63.5%
Month-by-month totals
4410
415
Sep
441
Oct
393
Nov
373
Dec
374
Jan
3
Feb
6
Mar
4
Apr
1
May
3
Jun
4
Jul
8
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
415
October 2025
441
November 2025
393
December 2025
373
January 2026
374
February 2026
3 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026
6 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026
4 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026
1 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026
3 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026
4 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026
8 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
Forest of Dean council area
23.3
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
2,025 records and 87,025 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No Gloucestershire Constabulary or England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
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 Forest of Dean 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 offences42.0%
850 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour19.1%
387 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson8.1%
165 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft6.8%
137 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order5.5%
111 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Burglary4.8%
98 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Other crime4.0%
81 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Vehicle crime2.8%
57 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the Forest of Dean council area
Records by part of the Forest of Dean council area: the south-west 1,235, the west 451, the north-west 353, the north 332, the south 253, the north-east 143, the east 28, the south-east 18, the centre 3.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Forest of Dean council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Forest of Dean 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 Forest of Dean council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Striped months add only the records that were published. Explore the Forest of Dean council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Forest of Dean council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000080), which can differ from the place people call Forest of Dean.
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 Forest of Dean. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
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.