Crime Statistics for Aspley Heath, Central Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Aspley Heath in September 2024. There were a total of 15 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Aspley Heath, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime9
Vehicle Crime3
Drugs1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime15

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 Aspley Heath. 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 Aspley Heath

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Wavendon (1.75 miles)202
Cross End (1.39 miles)178
Brinklow (1.75 miles)154
Old Farm Park (1.39 miles)95
Wavendon Gate (1.39 miles)95
Lower End (1.39 miles)56
Browns Wood (1.24 miles)43
Bow Brickhill (1.39 miles)17
Aspley Heath15
Aspley Guise (1.39 miles)13

9.5%
of Aspley and Woburn residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Aspley Heath?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cross End97
Wavendon85
Brinklow60
Old Farm Park47
Wavendon Gate47
Lower End35
Browns Wood19
Aspley Heath9
Bow Brickhill7
Aspley Guise6

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

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 Aspley Heath 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 Aspley Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Aspley Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Aspley Heath have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Bletchley East.

#WardScore
1Bletchley East76
2Woughton & Fishermead75
3Campbell Park & Old Woughton50
4Bletchley Park42
5Broughton39
6Bletchley West37
7Danesborough & Walton34
8Monkston31
9Great Brickhill & Newton Longville23
10Cranfield and Marston Moretaine21
11Aspley and Woburn21

Which road in Aspley Heath has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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