Total Crime Rate
97.6 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
31.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Wellsway area has the 11th highest crime rate of 38 local areas in Odd Down , and the 151st highest crime rate of 591 local areas in Bath and North East Somerset .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Wellsway (BA2 2UB) in the last 12 months was 97.6 per 1,000 residents and was 54.0% higher than the Odd Down average (63.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 10 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -57.1% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 13 (≈ 31.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -56.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -60.6% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Wellsway (BA2 2UB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Odins Road, where police recorded 57 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Chelwood Drive (42 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Odd Down| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Chelwood Drive | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Oolite Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Chelwood Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oolite Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Oolite Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Oolite Grove | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Red Lion Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Chelwood Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Frome Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Frome Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Frome Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Frome Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Frome Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Ridge Green Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Chelwood Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fullers Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Crescent Place Mews | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Supermarket | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wansdyke Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Weatherly Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Odins Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Odins Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Odins Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Odins Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Odins Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Odins Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Upper Bloomfield Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Upper Bloomfield Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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