Crime Statistics for Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Biggleswade in September 2024. There were a total of 92 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 Biggleswade, 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	36
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Vehicle Crime	10
Shoplifting	8
Public Order	7
Burglary	4
Other Theft	3
Other Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	92

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 Biggleswade. 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 Biggleswade

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Biggleswade	92
Holme Green (0.62 miles)	49
Holme (1.39 miles)	13
Millow (1.96 miles)	12
Lower Caldecote (1.76 miles)	9
Newton (1.86 miles)	5
Upper Caldecote (1.96 miles)	5
Dunton (2.48 miles)	4
Ickwell (2.55 miles)	1
Ickwell (2.55 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Biggleswade?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Biggleswade	36
Holme Green	18
Millow	16
Holme	4
Newton	4
Dunton	3
Lower Caldecote	1
Upper Caldecote	0
Ickwell	0

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

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 Biggleswade 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 Biggleswade compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Biggleswade and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Biggleswade is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Letchworth Grange	40
2	Biggleswade North	37
3	Sandy	34
4	Shefford	33
5	Biggleswade South	33
6	Arbury	32
7	Northill	28
8	The Mordens	26
9	Arlesey	20
10	Gamlingay	18
11	Stotfold and Langford	15

Which road in Biggleswade has the highest level of crime?

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