Stonehouse is about as safe as the rest of the Stroud district, with a slightly longer crime sheet and nothing on it to lose sleep over. Recorded crime runs a little above the district average. Almost everyone of working age has a job. Violence makes up a bigger share of reported crime than it does nationally. The town is busy enough to produce some crime, and small enough that the figures move with a few dozen incidents.
Police.uk recorded 608 crimes in Stonehouse in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 50 per 1,000 residents and roughly 9% above the average for the Stroud district. In a town this size a gap of that kind can come down to a handful of busy weekends. One of the manor's lords, John Maltravers, was implicated in the murder of Edward II at Berkeley Castle in 1327, fled abroad and was later restored to the king's favour, so the town has a long history of putting bad news into perspective.
Set side by side, the figures are about 50 crimes per 1,000 residents for Stonehouse and about 46 for the Stroud district as a whole. Most of Stroud's surrounding valleys are villages and farmland, so a market town with a high street, a station and industrial estates will tend to sit above them.
Stonehouse is fairly compact, with an average of about 3,000 people per square kilometre across its neighbourhoods. Unemployment was about 2% at the last census, and about 3% of households were overcrowded. These figures describe what the town is like rather than explain its crime: a working town of family houses, built around jobs on Oldends Lane, and a long way from deprived.
Violence and sexual offences made up about 46% of Stonehouse's recorded crime over the same year, against about 35% across England and Wales. That is the one category where the town clearly differs from the national pattern. The legal category is broad, covering common assault where nobody was injured as well as serious offences, and in a town of this size a fairly small number of incidents can move the share by several points. Anti-social behaviour came to about 18%, against 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson, at about 7%, and other theft, at about 6%, were both close to the national shares of about 7%. Shoplifting, at about 5% against 8% nationally, and public order offences, also about 5% against about 7%, both came in lower. Police.uk's crime map shows offences down to individual streets, so check the roads around any house you are considering to see whether those violence figures cluster anywhere in particular.
Once a crime is reported, the outcome depends on the force rather than the town. Gloucestershire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 39th of 42 forces in England and Wales, and about 33% of its cases are closed without a suspect being identified. Those figures cover the whole county, from the year to May 2026, with only eight months of outcomes reported, and they measure how well the force follows up crimes, not how much crime Stonehouse has. In any league table, 39th out of 42 is in the relegation zone.
Stonehouse is middling for safety: a little above the district on recorded crime, with a violence share worth checking street by street, and nothing that should rule the town out.