Total Crime Rate
88.3 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
35.3 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Northfield Road area has the 2nd highest crime rate of 36 local areas in Grumbolds Ash with Avening , and the 30th highest crime rate of 307 local areas in Cotswold .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Northfield Road (GL8 8HE) in the last 12 months was 88.3 per 1,000 residents and was 64.4% higher than the Grumbolds Ash with Avening average (53.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 16 offences recorded. The least common crime was Criminal damage and arson with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. All major crime categories fell. The sharpest drop was Other theft ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 16 (≈ 35.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -42.9% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 131.1% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Northfield Road (GL8 8HE), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Petrol Station, where police recorded 10 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Northfield Close (7 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
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