Crime Statistics for Harlington, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harlington in September 2024. There were a total of 18 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Crime	2
Violent Crime	1
Public Order	1
Burglary	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	18

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 Harlington. 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 Harlington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Sundon (2.24 miles)	64
Harlington	18
Toddington (2.24 miles)	17
Greenfield (2.78 miles)	13
Barton-le-Clay (3.16 miles)	10
Fancott (2.24 miles)	10
Tebworth (3.51 miles)	5
Tingrith (2.24 miles)	3
Wardhedges (3.62 miles)	2
Streatley (2.77 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Harlington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Sundon	22
Toddington	5
Greenfield	5
Fancott	4
Wardhedges	2
Harlington	1
Barton-le-Clay	1
Tebworth	1
Tingrith	1
Streatley	0

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

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 Harlington 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 Harlington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harlington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harlington is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Parkside	85
2	Houghton Hall	76
3	Tithe Farm	75
4	Heath and Reach	74
5	Northwell	71
6	Leagrave	68
7	Sundon Park	62
8	Westoning, Flitton and Greenfield	27
9	Flitwick	25
10	Aspley and Woburn	21
11	Barton-le-Clay	20

Which road in Harlington has the highest level of crime?

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