Crime Statistics for Amesbury, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Amesbury in September 2024. There were a total of 71 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 Amesbury, 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	31
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	6
Drugs	3
Shoplifting	2
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Other Theft	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	71

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 Amesbury. 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 Amesbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ratfyn (0.88 miles)	101
Amesbury	52
Bulford (1.75 miles)	31
Durrington (1.86 miles)	28
Brigmerston (2.56 miles)	26
Milston (2.56 miles)	26
Hackthorn (2.49 miles)	25
Strangways (1.39 miles)	11
Lake (1.76 miles)	1
Great Durnford (2.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Amesbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ratfyn	43
Amesbury	31
Bulford	18
Durrington	17
Brigmerston	12
Milston	12
Hackthorn	11
Strangways	10
Lake	0
Great Durnford	0

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

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 Amesbury 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 Amesbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Salisbury Bemerton	67
2	Wilton and Lower Wylye Valley	44
3	Amesbury West	39
4	Laverstock, Ford and Old Sarum	39
5	Amesbury East	32
6	Salisbury St Francis and Stratford	32
7	Winterslow	28
8	Salisbury St Mark's and Bishopdown	27
9	Bourne and Woodford Valley	24
10	Durrington and Larkhill	20
11	Bulford, Allington and Figheldean	19

Which road in Amesbury has the highest level of crime?

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