Crime Statistics for Clapham Green, Clapham, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Clapham Green in October 2024. There were a total of 43 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Clapham Green, 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	12
Other Theft	8
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Burglary	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Shoplifting	2
Public Order	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	43

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bedford (2.24 miles)	1346
Castle (2.19 miles)	1000
Brickhill (1.24 miles)	61
Biddenham (1.39 miles)	54
Clapham Green	44
Great Ouse (1.63 miles)	33
Clapham (0.88 miles)	27
Bridge End (2.24 miles)	19
Bromham (1.96 miles)	14
Oakley (1.39 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Clapham Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bedford	426
Castle	326
Brickhill	35
Biddenham	16
Clapham Green	12
Great Ouse	10
Clapham	10
Bridge End	9
Bromham	8
Oakley	6

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

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 Clapham Green 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 Clapham Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	73
2	Cauldwell	69
3	Harpur	66
4	Queens Park	63
5	Kempston Central and East	52
6	De Parys	46
7	Brickhill	33
8	Clapham	31
9	Kempston Rural	29
10	Bromham and Biddenham	18
11	Oakley	3

Which road in Clapham Green has the highest level of crime?

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