Crime Statistics for Abington, Northampton, Northamptonshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Abington in September 2024. There were a total of 735 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Abington, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	319
Anti Social Behaviour	73
Vehicle Crime	60
Shoplifting	44
Drugs	44
Public Order	44
Other Theft	38
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Burglary	24
Other Crime	20
Possession Of Weapons	16
Robbery	14
Theft From The Person	9
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	735

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Abington. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Abington

We've taken the ten nearest places to Abington and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Abington has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Abington	722
St James’s End (1.96 miles)	603
Boothville (1.96 miles)	420
Far Cotton (2.24 miles)	357
Spinney Hill (1.24 miles)	345
Dallington (2.48 miles)	343
Abington Vale (0.62 miles)	315
Little Billing (1.96 miles)	217
Little Houghton (2.24 miles)	1
Great Houghton (2.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Abington?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Abington and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Abington	319
St James’s End	201
Far Cotton	138
Boothville	134
Abington Vale	128
Dallington	124
Spinney Hill	104
Little Billing	52
Little Houghton	0
Great Houghton	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Abington?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Abington to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Abington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Abington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Abington is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	92
2	Delapre and Briar Hill	85
3	Abington	84
4	Trinity	82
5	Semilong	81
6	Phippsville	78
7	Kingsley	76
8	Headlands	74
9	Park	59
10	Rushmills	48
11	Nene Valley	16

Which road in Abington has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Abington with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Kettering Road.