Crime Statistics for Shefford, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shefford in October 2024. There were a total of 152 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	57
Violent Crime	46
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Theft	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Public Order	3
Drugs	2
Burglary	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	152

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 Shefford. 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 Shefford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shefford	99
Campton (0.88 miles)	51
Henlow (1.96 miles)	25
Lower Stondon (2.56 miles)	24
Holme (3.1 miles)	21
Langford (2.55 miles)	21
Chicksands (1.24 miles)	11
Southill (1.96 miles)	7
Upper Gravenhurst (2.63 miles)	1
Ireland (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Shefford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shefford	46
Campton	16
Lower Stondon	12
Holme	6
Chicksands	6
Langford	5
Southill	5
Henlow	4
Upper Gravenhurst	1
Ireland	0

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

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 Shefford 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 Shefford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shefford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Shefford is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hitchin Oughton	64
2	Letchworth Wilbury	45
3	Letchworth Grange	40
4	Cadwell	40
5	Biggleswade North	37
6	Shefford	33
7	Biggleswade South	33
8	Arbury	32
9	Arlesey	20
10	Silsoe and Shillington	17
11	Stotfold and Langford	15

Which road in Shefford has the highest level of crime?

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