Ashchurch has more crime than you'd expect from a village of new estates. Its recorded rate is about a third higher than the rest of the Tewkesbury district's. Unemployment is close to nil. The houses aren't crowded. The numbers are small enough that a few bad months can tip them, and right now they lean the wrong way.
The police recorded 135 crimes in Ashchurch in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026. The published rate works out at about 56 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 32% above the average for the Tewkesbury local authority. At this size, a dozen incidents either way moves that figure noticeably, though not enough to close the gap.
For comparison, the Tewkesbury district as a whole ran at about 43 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same year. Both figures come from the same police force over the same period, so the gap is a real one.
None of the usual pressures explain it. Ashchurch has about 136 residents per square kilometre, unemployment of about 2% and about 2% of households overcrowded. That's a spread-out place with people in work and room to live in. Whatever is pushing the count up, it isn't crowding or hardship on any of those measures.
The mix of offences is where Ashchurch stands out, with a warning attached. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury, made up 33% of crimes against 35% nationally, so that headline category is close to normal. Antisocial behaviour is the outlier at 27% against 16% nationally. Other theft ran at 10% against 7%, burglary at 6% against 4%, criminal damage and arson at 5% against 7%, and shoplifting at 4% against 8%. On a base of 135 crimes, a handful of reports moves any of those shares by several points, so the mix is a snapshot of one year and not a fixed trait of the village. With 10 business premises on the rating list, shoplifters don't have much to choose from. Police.uk's street-level map shows where incidents were logged each month, and it will tell you more about a particular close than the village total does.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is. Gloucestershire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks it 39th of 42 forces. About 33% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide outcomes, based on the eight months the force reported in that year, and they describe Gloucestershire's police, not Ashchurch's streets. The odds that an Ashchurch report ends in court rest with an organisation covering the whole county.
Ashchurch is one of the less safe corners of a calm district, with antisocial behaviour, not serious crime, making up the difference. It's the one part of the village's record worth reading twice.