Crime Statistics for Harrowden, Elstow, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harrowden in August 2024. There were a total of 84 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 Harrowden, 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	27
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Vehicle Crime	8
Burglary	6
Public Order	4
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	4
Drugs	2
Shoplifting	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	84

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 Harrowden. 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 Harrowden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Castle (1.58 miles)	716
Bedford (1.39 miles)	658
South End (1.39 miles)	396
Kempston (1.96 miles)	277
Fenlake (0.62 miles)	225
Harrowden	84
Cardington (1.24 miles)	45
Shortstown (0.88 miles)	31
Herring’s Green (2.24 miles)	7
Littleworth (1.96 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Harrowden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bedford	219
Castle	217
South End	101
Kempston	65
Fenlake	50
Harrowden	27
Cardington	15
Shortstown	12
Littleworth	4
Herring’s Green	2

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

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 Harrowden 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 Harrowden compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	73
2	Cauldwell	69
3	Harpur	66
4	Kingsbrook	64
5	Queens Park	63
6	Eastcotts	60
7	Kempston North	58
8	Kempston Central and East	52
9	Elstow and Stewartby	48
10	Kempston South	40
11	Wilshamstead	20

Which road in Harrowden has the highest level of crime?

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