Crime Statistics for Heath and Reach, Rushmere, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heath and Reach in September 2024. There were a total of 200 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 Heath and Reach, 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	69
Anti Social Behaviour	48
Vehicle Crime	24
Public Order	20
Other Theft	16
Shoplifting	8
Bicycle Theft	4
Burglary	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	200

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 Heath and Reach. 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 Heath and Reach

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Linslade (1.39 miles)	127
Heath and Reach	102
Rushmere (0.62 miles)	46
Eggington (2.24 miles)	22
Potsgrove (2.24 miles)	1
Great Brickhill (2.24 miles)	0
Battlesden (2.55 miles)	0
Fox Corner (1.24 miles)	0
Green End (2.24 miles)	0
Sheeplane (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Heath and Reach?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Heath and Reach	69
Linslade	40
Rushmere	36
Eggington	7
Potsgrove	0
Great Brickhill	0
Battlesden	0
Fox Corner	0
Green End	0
Sheeplane	0

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

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 Heath and Reach 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 Heath and Reach compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Heath and Reach and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Heath and Reach is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bletchley East	76
2	Leighton Buzzard North	54
3	Eaton Bray	51
4	Leighton Buzzard South	45
5	Bletchley Park	42
6	Danesborough & Walton	34
7	Wing	29
8	Linslade	27
9	Westoning, Flitton and Greenfield	27
10	Great Brickhill & Newton Longville	23
11	Aspley and Woburn	21

Which road in Heath and Reach has the highest level of crime?

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