Total Crime Rate

86.5 per 1,000 7/10 · High

All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026

Violent Crime Rate

37.8 per 1,000 7/10 · High

May 2025 - Apr 2026
Latest update: 06.06.2026 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 86.5 7/10
  • Violent crimes 37.8 7/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 27.0 8/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 27.0 6/10
  • Other theft 10.8 8/10
  • Burglary 5.4 6/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 5.4 4/10
  • Possession of weapons 5.4 8/10
  • Public order 5.4 5/10
  • Bicycle theft 0.0 1/10
  • Drugs 0.0 1/10
  • Other crime 0.0 1/10
  • Robbery 0.0 1/10
  • Shoplifting 0.0 1/10
  • Theft from the person 0.0 1/10
  • Vehicle crime 0.0 1/10
Values shown per 1,000 residents · May 2025 - Apr 2026 · Rating compares this oa to UK peers of the same type.
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Crime overview

Tower Street area has the 8th highest crime rate of 45 local areas in Abbey , and the 31st highest crime rate of 307 local areas in Cotswold .

Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.

The overall crime rate in the area around Tower Street (GL7 1EF) in the last 12 months was 86.5 per 1,000 residents and was 48.8% lower than the Abbey average (168.8 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Anti-social behaviour with 5 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. All major crime categories fell. The sharpest drop was Criminal damage and arson ( -66.7% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 7 (≈ 37.8 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -22.2% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 29.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Tower Street (GL7 1EF), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Dyer Street, where police recorded 68 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near The Waterloo (20 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.

Crime Over Time in Tower Street area

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Data Sources

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