Crime Statistics for Holwellbury, Lower Stondon, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holwellbury in October 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Violent Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	9

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 Holwellbury. 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 Holwellbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ickleford (2.24 miles)	178
Cadwell (1.75 miles)	55
Lower Stondon (0.88 miles)	24
Arlesey (1.96 miles)	22
Hiz (1.56 miles)	13
Holwellbury	9
Burge End (1.75 miles)	6
Pirton (2.24 miles)	5
Shillington (2.48 miles)	5
Holwell (0.62 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Holwellbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ickleford	58
Cadwell	14
Lower Stondon	12
Arlesey	9
Hiz	8
Burge End	8
Shillington	3
Holwellbury	2
Pirton	2
Holwell	0

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

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 Holwellbury 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 Holwellbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hitchin Oughton	64
2	Letchworth Wilbury	45
3	Letchworth South West	43
4	Letchworth Grange	40
5	Cadwell	40
6	Hitchin Bearton	39
7	Hitchin Priory	34
8	Shefford	33
9	Hitchin Highbury	29
10	Arlesey	20
11	Hitchin Walsworth	20

Which road in Holwellbury has the highest level of crime?

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