Crime Statistics for Castle, Bedford, Bedford, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Castle in August 2024. There were a total of 716 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 Castle, 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	217
Anti Social Behaviour	102
Public Order	64
Shoplifting	62
Burglary	54
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Other Theft	42
Vehicle Crime	41
Bicycle Theft	28
Drugs	20
Other Crime	16
Possession Of Weapons	10
Theft From The Person	6
Robbery	6
All Crime	716

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Castle. 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 Castle

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Castle	716
Bedford (0.44 miles)	658
South End (1.32 miles)	396
Kempston (1.81 miles)	277
Salph End (1.81 miles)	260
Fenlake (0.98 miles)	225
Renhold (2.19 miles)	165
Brickhill (1.58 miles)	124
Harrowden (1.58 miles)	84
Biddenham (2.19 miles)	62

Where are the most violent places near Castle?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bedford	219
Castle	217
South End	101
Kempston	65
Salph End	58
Fenlake	50
Brickhill	39
Renhold	28
Harrowden	27
Biddenham	17

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

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 Castle 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 Castle compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	73
2	Cauldwell	69
3	Harpur	66
4	Kingsbrook	64
5	Queens Park	63
6	Kempston North	58
7	Newnham	52
8	Kempston Central and East	52
9	Goldington	49
10	De Parys	46
11	Brickhill	33

Which road in Castle has the highest level of crime?

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