Minchinhampton is a safe place to live, and the crime figures put it comfortably below the rest of its district. Recorded crime runs well under the Stroud average. Hardly anyone here is out of work, and almost no home is overcrowded. The one category that stands out is anti-social behaviour, and in a town this small a handful of reports is enough to push its share up. If anything goes wrong here, the trouble is more likely to be a noisy evening than a break-in.
Police.uk published 210 recorded crimes in Minchinhampton in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, a rate of about 38 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 18% below the average for the Stroud district. Twelve months is long enough that one bad weekend cannot change the overall picture.
Across the whole Stroud district, the published rate over the same year was about 46 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Minchinhampton's 38.
Minchinhampton is a small town, with an average density of about 1,460 people per square kilometre across its neighbourhoods. Unemployment was about 1% at the 2021 census, and about 1% of homes were overcrowded. None of that explains the crime figures on its own. It simply describes a town where most people have a job and room to live.
The breakdown by type needs care, because a total of 210 offences is small enough for a few incidents to move a share by several points. Violence and sexual offences made up about 34% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally, which is close to the norm. That category is the largest almost everywhere and includes common assault where nobody was injured. Anti-social behaviour was about 31%, against 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson was about 6% against 7%, vehicle crime about 5% against 5%, and burglary about 5% against 4%. Anti-social behaviour is the outlier, and in a town where crime is this low, a run of reports about the same few incidents is enough to produce it. If that worries you, the police.uk map shows where reports cluster by month, and it is worth checking whether they gather near the house you are buying.
After a crime is reported, the figure that counts covers the whole county. Gloucestershire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places it 39th of 42 forces. About 33% of its cases close without any suspect being identified. Those are force-wide outcomes over the year from June 2025 to May 2026, built from the 8 months the force reported. They tell you what happens to a case once it is reported, which is a separate question from how much crime there is in Minchinhampton.
Minchinhampton is a safe town to live in. Crime is well below the district's, and the most frequent complaint is about behaviour, not a threat to anyone's front door.