How bad is crime in Nottingham?

Nope, I'm just not stupid enough to live in Nottingham.

LOL. Nottingham is not South Central L.A.

"Police recorded 44,103 offences for 12 months up until August 31 this year...

...a 26.1% drop on the 59,663 registered in the 12 months up until March 31, 2007.

Why not quote the rest of the sentence?

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Reading the statistics sort of put me off though... it doesn't look like the safest place to study tbh, I've been told it is comparatively more "chavvy" and dangerous than other university cities... thoughts?

I went to the open day at Nottingham university yesterday, and loved it. Beautiful campus, open and green with a pretty lake, lovely buildings, and the English studies talk was really good.

So I went back to the train station feeling quite happy, only to find that my train just wasn't coming anymore, and I would have to wait two hours for the next one. So my boyfriend and I went outside and walked down the street to Tesco Express. The first thing we saw when we went in, however, was a man scooping a shelf-full of sweets into a carrier bag and walking out with them. We told the shop-assistant and she told us that they get more shoplifters than customers!

Maybe right outside the train station in Nottingham isn't the nicest part, so are there nice parts? Is the whole of Nottingham crime-ridden, or are there good places to eat and go shopping where you aren't so likely to witness robberies?

You'll be fine. Seriously. What statistics have you seen? If you mean the statistics that have been posted here in post #87, remember that 'english average' is not the same as english cities average'. Obviously there are areas of the country with a lot less crime than Nottingham, but any city has its fair share of crime.
What other universities are you looking at? Nottingham is no worse than any city of the same size, and it's a lot better than London.

Some areas of Nottingham are pretty rough, but Nottingham is a big place and those areas are nowhere near the university. The areas around the university - Beeston, Lenton, Wolaton, Radford - are absolutley fine. There's a bit of burgulary, but that's to be expected when you have thousands of rich students living in not very secure houses. Aside from that, crime is fairly average.

Exactly what jhs08 said. To be honest, in and around Beeston where I am, it's very rare for me to actually come across chavs. They are far outnumbered by students. There are way more chavs knocking around my quite nice area about 10 miles outside of Birmingham centre, I feel much safer here than at home.

Anyway, the Student Satisfaction Survey is currently being compiled, I just filled mine in and one of the questions was based on how safe you feel in certain areas of Nottingham, the results are released in Semester 2 so keep an eye out and I'l sure you'll get a more defeinitive answer from that rather than some dubious and mostly irrelevant statistics.

Thank you both very much =) I've just realised how silly my doubts were really...but I'll be coming from continental Europe and living on my own, so I wanted to be reassured...the other unis I applied to are York, Warwick, Sheffield and Durham...I'll look into the results of the survey, thanks very much for the info. I didn't want this "crime" aspect to put me off cause I like Nottingham and the course I chose.

Wow, sorry but don't listen to anyone who has come onto this thread quoting things and saying 'ooh I've heard this' and 'oooh apparently' because you have to have lived there and experienced it before you have any basis to judge, IMO. I come from a very nice, pretty much crime-less town in Berkshire but I have not once felt my safety to be in jeopardy or to feel threatened in Nottingham. Sure, it has statistics against it and a lot of hear-say reputation but it is not at all as bad as it is made out to be. Manchester and parts of London are certainly worse. Ok so you get the usual petty theft, a shooting and a stabbing, and petty crimes but it is not full of gangsta's strutting the streets, guns blazing and bloodshed everywhere. The city centre is generally very safe, a high police presence, plenty of students and younger people which means it is always busy, lots of bouncers. The areas you will go as a student are not the danger areas of the Meadows and St. Anns which are relatively fair out. Security on campus is also very good. Overall, crime is not a reason to rule Nottingham out. Read this if you want re-assurance: http://www.impactnottingham.com/2009/08/ng7-no-longer-a-burglary-hotspot/

biggest pile of bollox ever. Whatever shes says do the opposite...

heres the real nottingham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0CYA7exchI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dCLtZFyV5k

biggest pile of bollox ever. Whatever shes says do the opposite...

heres the real nottingham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0CYA7exchI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dCLtZFyV5k