Crime Statistics for Broad Green, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broad Green in August 2024. There were a total of 35 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 Broad 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	21
Other Theft	6
Burglary	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Public Order	2
All Crime	35

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 Broad 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 Broad Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Marston Moretaine (2.77 miles)	48
Cranfield (0.62 miles)	40
Caulcott (2.55 miles)	34
Lower Shelton (2.55 miles)	34
Broad Green	23
Gossard’s Green (0.62 miles)	18
Bourne End (0.88 miles)	11
Brook End (2.56 miles)	0
Up End (2.24 miles)	0
Little Crawley (2.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Broad Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cranfield	25
Broad Green	21
Marston Moretaine	19
Gossard’s Green	13
Caulcott	11
Lower Shelton	11
Bourne End	5
Brook End	0
Up End	0
Little Crawley	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Broad 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 Broad 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 Broad Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Broad Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Broad Green is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kempston West	55
2	Houghton Conquest and Haynes	41
3	Kempston South	40
4	Broughton	39
5	Monkston	31
6	Kempston Rural	29
7	Ampthill	29
8	Newport Pagnell South	28
9	Cranfield and Marston Moretaine	21
10	Wootton	21
11	Olney	16

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

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