Bishop's Cleeve is safe, comfortably safer than the borough around it. Its crime rate runs about a fifth below the local average. Unemployment is close to zero. Hardly anyone lives in an overcrowded home. Most of the crime here is the ordinary stuff, and burglary is the one category worth a closer look.
Police records give Bishop's Cleeve a published rate of about 35 crimes per 1,000 residents over the year from June 2025 to May 2026, from 670 recorded crimes. That rate is roughly 19% below the Tewkesbury borough average for the same twelve months. Some part of the borough is pulling that average up, and on this evidence it isn't here.
Across the whole Tewkesbury council area the published rate is about 43 per 1,000, against about 35 in Bishop's Cleeve. A crime rate of eight fewer per 1,000 is the kind of difference residents notice when they compare notes with friends in Tewkesbury.
The village is more densely built than the word suggests, at an average of about 4,100 residents per square kilometre across its neighbourhoods. About 2% of residents are unemployed, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. These are busy, crowded streets of people in work and in homes with room to spare, and that tends to come with low crime.
Over the same twelve months, violence and sexual offences made up about 36% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category is a broad legal grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it's the biggest one almost everywhere. Here it's in line with the national share. Anti-social behaviour is the clearer local feature, at about 26% against 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson make up about 7%, the same as nationally, public order offences about 6% against 7%, and other theft about 5% against 7%. Burglary is the one to watch, at about 6% here against about 4% across England and Wales. On a total this size, a few incidents can move a share by a point or two either way. It's still worth looking up the street-level crime map for the exact road you're considering, because burglaries tend to cluster on a handful of roads.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it's answered at county level. Gloucestershire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 39th of 42 forces. About 33% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those outcomes cover the whole force over the year to May 2026, and the force reported for only eight of those twelve months. They tell you how likely the force is to catch someone. They tell you nothing about how much crime there is in the village, and the two numbers should be read separately.
Bishop's Cleeve is a safe place to live, clearly safer than the borough it belongs to. Burglary is the one category where it does worse than the national share, and that's the only real reason to look twice.