Innsworth is less safe than the borough around it. Crime runs about a quarter above the local average. Unemployment is low. Homes are rarely overcrowded. The crime figure sits awkwardly on a place that otherwise looks this comfortable.
Police.uk records show about 53 crimes per 1,000 residents in Innsworth in the year to May 2026, roughly 25% above the average for Tewkesbury borough. That came to 560 recorded crimes over the twelve months. Both are the published figures, worked out on the statistical areas the police data uses, so they will differ slightly from anything calculated off the village's own headcount.
Across Tewkesbury borough as a whole, the rate over the same year was about 43 per 1,000. Innsworth's 53 sits on top of that, in a borough that is mostly market towns and farmland and has a low figure to measure against. Next to Gloucester's streets the village would look different again, but Gloucester is in another district and gets its own count.
Innsworth packs about 4,200 people into each square kilometre, unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of homes are overcrowded. Those numbers describe a dense, working, uncrowded estate. None of them explains the crime rate, and the low unemployment and overcrowding cut against the usual assumptions about where crime figures come from. It is a suburb's density with a parish council on top.
By category, violence and sexual offences made up about 47% of recorded crime in Innsworth, against about 35% across England and Wales. That heading is the biggest almost everywhere and covers a wide legal range, down to common assault where nobody was hurt, but here it is still the clearest gap. Anti-social behaviour was about 21%, against 16% nationally. The rest runs at or below the national pattern: shoplifting about 7% against 8%, other theft about 6% against 7%, public order about 6% against 7%, and criminal damage and arson about 4% against 7%. The car and the shed are faring better than the national averages would suggest. Police.uk's street-level map lets anyone look at the specific road a house is on, month by month, and that is worth doing for any house on a shortlist, because one busy spot can move a village average a long way.
What happens after a report is a separate question, answered at force level. Gloucestershire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks it 39th of 42 forces in England and Wales for the year to May 2026, on the months it reported. About 33% of its cases close with no suspect identified. That is a measure of the force across the whole county, with nothing in it specific to Innsworth's streets, and it says how often a crime ends in a charge rather than how often one happens.
Safety is one of Innsworth's weaker points: a crime rate well above the rest of its borough, led by violence and anti-social behaviour, policed by a force that charges less often than most. Buyers who rank a low crime rate near the top of their list will find better-placed villages elsewhere in Tewkesbury borough.