Crime Statistics for Downside, Church End, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Downside in October 2024. There were a total of 134 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	34
Violent Crime	28
Public Order	22
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	134

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 Downside. 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 Downside

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Parkside (2.56 miles)	358
Leagrave (2.24 miles)	259
Dunstable (1.39 miles)	197
Downside	134
Beecroft (2.24 miles)	118
Farley Hill (2.48 miles)	94
Chaul End (1.39 miles)	69
Aley Green (2.24 miles)	31
Caddington (1.96 miles)	23
Kensworth (1.39 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Downside?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Parkside	121
Leagrave	83
Farley Hill	60
Dunstable	53
Beecroft	45
Downside	28
Chaul End	21
Aley Green	12
Caddington	10
Kensworth	2

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

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 Downside 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 Downside compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dunstable-Manshead	86
2	Parkside	85
3	Dunstable-Central	81
4	Houghton Hall	76
5	Dunstable-Northfields	75
6	Tithe Farm	75
7	Challney	74
8	Lewsey	71
9	Dunstable-Icknield	62
10	Dunstable-Watling	47
11	Caddington	47

Which road in Downside has the highest level of crime?

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