Crime in GL16
How much crime is recorded in GL16, what kind, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
- Council
- Forest of Dean
- Region
- South West
- Population
- 23,257 (2024)
GL16Postcode district · Coleford
How safe is GL16
Higher-harm crime (violence, robbery, burglary, vehicle crime and weapons offences) runs at 23.5 offences per 1,000 people a year in GL16, below the 31.1 average across England and Wales. That puts it in band 5 of 10 against all neighbourhoods.
Around the middle of neighbourhoods in England and Wales.
What crime is recorded
Recorded offences per 1,000 people a year (counting both residents and people who work locally, or per 1,000 households for burglary).
Higher-harm crime over time
It has fallen 22% since 2022.
Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, resolved to neighbourhoods. Rates use each neighbourhood's latest twelve published months, which end between January 2026 and August 2026 because police forces publish on different schedules.