Brockworth is about as safe as the rest of its borough, a shade worse on paper and no different on the walk to school. Crime runs a touch above the local average. Most of what gets reported is low-level. Unemployment is low and homes are rarely overcrowded. It is an average place for crime, and that is exactly what the numbers say.
Police.uk records put Brockworth's crime rate at about 45 per 1,000 residents in the year to May 2026, roughly 5% above the average for Tewkesbury borough. That covers 674 recorded crimes over the twelve months, from June 2025 onward.
Set side by side, Brockworth's rate of about 45 per 1,000 compares with about 43 per 1,000 across Tewkesbury borough. Two points apart is the difference between a village and its borough, the kind of gap that disappears if a single busy month falls the other way.
The neighbourhoods behind those figures are fairly settled working ones. Population density averages about 4,330 people per square kilometre across Brockworth's small census areas, which is estate housing and not countryside. Unemployment was about 2% at the 2021 census, and about 2% of households were overcrowded. That is the profile of a commuter village where most people leave for work in the morning and come back to a house with enough bedrooms.
The mix leans towards two categories. Violence and sexual offences make up about 44% of Brockworth's recorded crime, against about 35% across England and Wales, and that heading is broad enough to include common assault where nobody was injured. Anti-social behaviour is about 26% here, against 16% nationally, which is the bigger departure from the norm. Criminal damage and arson are about 7% in both, other theft about 6% against 7%, public order about 5% against 7%, and vehicle crime about 3% against 5%. Brockworth reports more nuisance than most places and less of the theft that most buyers worry about. The street-level map on police.uk shows where incidents were recorded month by month, and a few minutes on it for the actual road you are viewing will tell you whether the anti-social behaviour lives near you or at the other end of the village.
Reporting a crime is one thing and seeing someone charged is another. Gloucestershire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places it 39th of 42 forces, and about 33% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures over the same year, built from eight months of reported outcomes, and they say nothing about how often crime happens in Brockworth. They say what happens afterwards, and in Gloucestershire the answer is less than a victim would hope.
Brockworth is middling on safety, ordinary in its crime rate and a little noisier than average in its complaints. The bigger concern is the force's record after a report, which is a county problem and follows you to every street in it.