Crime Statistics for Salph End, Ravensden, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Salph End in August 2024. There were a total of 272 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Shoplifting75
Violent Crime58
Vehicle Crime31
Anti Social Behaviour28
Other Theft24
Other Crime16
Public Order14
Criminal Damage Arson10
Burglary6
Drugs6
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery2
All Crime272

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 Salph End. 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 Salph End

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Castle (1.81 miles)716
Bedford (2.24 miles)658
South End (3.1 miles)396
Salph End260
Fenlake (2.56 miles)225
Renhold (0.62 miles)165
Brickhill (1.24 miles)124
Clapham Green (2.48 miles)41
Ravensden (1.24 miles)7
Great Barford (3.1 miles)5

15.9%
of Putnoe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Salph End?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bedford219
Castle217
South End101
Salph End58
Fenlake50
Brickhill39
Renhold28
Clapham Green13
Ravensden1
Great Barford0

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

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 Salph End 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 Salph End compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Salph End and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Salph End is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Castle73
2Cauldwell69
3Harpur66
4Kingsbrook64
5Newnham52
6Goldington49
7De Parys46
8Putnoe36
9Brickhill33
10Great Barford31
11Clapham31

Which road in Salph End has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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