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South Gloucestershire crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 23,950 street-crime records for the South Gloucestershire council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 13.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 82.6 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 113.1 for Avon and Somerset Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area South Gloucestershire council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call South Gloucestershire: 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
23,950
Latest month (August 2026)
1,909
Year-on-year
+13.5%
Month-by-month totals
2,2310
1.9k
Sep
2.1k
Oct
2.2k
Nov
1.9k
Dec
2.0k
Jan
2.0k
Feb
2.2k
Mar
2.0k
Apr
2.0k
May
1.8k
Jun
2.1k
Jul
1.9k
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
1,900
October 2025
2,074
November 2025
2,231
December 2025
1,916
January 2026
1,967
February 2026
1,982 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026
2,155 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026
1,954 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026
1,981 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026
1,816 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026
2,065 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026
1,909 (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.
South Gloucestershire council area
82.6
Avon and Somerset Police
113.1
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.
23,950 records and 290,088 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 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 South Gloucestershire 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 offences39.7%
9,501 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour13.3%
3,186 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting10.7%
2,557 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Public order8.1%
1,948 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson6.8%
1,637 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft6.3%
1,516 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary4.8%
1,156 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Vehicle crime4.2%
1,015 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the South Gloucestershire council area
Records by part of the South Gloucestershire council area: the south 9,751, the south-west 7,862, the west 7,605, the east 2,354, the north-west 1,112, the north-east 940, the north 499, the south-east 299, the centre 68.
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 South Gloucestershire council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the South Gloucestershire 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 South Gloucestershire council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Striped months add only the records that were published. Explore the South Gloucestershire council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the South Gloucestershire council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000025), which can differ from the place people call South Gloucestershire.
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 South Gloucestershire. 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.