Crime in Bath
Thinking about Bath? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Bath, Somerset, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try bristol, swindon, cardiff too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Bath centre
576crimes recorded in September 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 165
- Shoplifting 136
- Anti-social behaviour 125
- Other theft 30
- 9 other categories 120
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences165
- Shoplifting136
- Anti-social behaviour125
- Other theft30
- Criminal damage & arson29
- Public order27
- Burglary19
- Robbery18
- Vehicle crime13
- Other crime6
- Drugs4
- Bicycle theft2
- Theft from the person2
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Bath. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Bath a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Bath for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Bath crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Bath?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Bath. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.