Crime by postcode

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Police.uk records 543 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of GL50 3PL in January 2026, the latest month Gloucestershire Constabulary has published.

Gloucestershire Constabulary has published no figures to Police.uk after January 2026, though Police.uk has figures to August 2026 for other forces. These figures run to January 2026, so no month is counted without them.

Violence and sexual offences154 reports
Anti-social behaviour121 reports
Shoplifting73 reports
Public order40 reports
Other theft38 reports
Criminal damage and arson34 reports

Also: vehicle crime 34, burglary 18, other crime 15, bicycle theft 7, drugs 3, robbery 3, possession of weapons 2, theft from the person 1.

Each month, February 2025 to January 2026

  1. 493 February 2025
  2. 649 March 2025
  3. 582 April 2025
  4. 583 May 2025
  5. 542 June 2025
  6. 609 July 2025
  7. 641 August 2025
  8. 609 September 2025
  9. 589 October 2025
  10. 566 November 2025
  11. 550 December 2025
  12. 543 January 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences1,900 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,756 reports
Shoplifting817 reports
Public order478 reports
Vehicle crime438 reports
Criminal damage and arson407 reports
Other theft391 reports
Burglary230 reports

Also: drugs 139, bicycle theft 126, other crime 116, robbery 72, theft from the person 45, possession of weapons 41.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

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How we work this out

We use data.police.uk's own monthly download, the police's open data, which police.uk last published on 30 September 2026. We count every crime and report of anti-social behaviour it places within one mile of the postcode's centre point, by the kinds police.uk uses: for the latest month and each of the 12 latest months. The download says which forces published each month, so where the local force has not published police.uk's latest months, we show its own latest 12 and say so, rather than count those months as quiet.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none.

We give counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through a circle two miles across, a mile each way, so a figure per 1,000 people would be a guess. And we do not say whether an area is safe: the figures are there to read.

Why are the figures high for a town centre?

The counts cover a circle two miles across, a mile each way from the postcode's centre. Near a town centre that takes in its shops, pubs and station, where many crimes are recorded, and the counts are for the whole circle, not one street. Shoplifting is recorded where the shop is.

Does this cover Scotland?

No. Police Scotland publishes its own figures; police.uk covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland; this site covers England and Wales.

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Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to January 2026.

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