Crime Statistics for Shortstown, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shortstown in August 2024. There were a total of 31 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 Shortstown, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime12
Anti Social Behaviour6
Vehicle Crime3
Other Theft2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Shoplifting2
Public Order1
Possession Of Weapons1
Drugs1
Burglary1
All Crime31

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 Shortstown. 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 Shortstown

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bedford (2.24 miles)658
Castle (2.36 miles)591
South End (2.24 miles)396
Fenlake (1.39 miles)225
Harrowden (0.88 miles)84
Cardington (0.88 miles)46
Shortstown31
Cople (2.24 miles)8
Herring’s Green (1.39 miles)7
Littleworth (1.24 miles)6

19.17%
of Eastcotts residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Shortstown?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bedford219
Castle195
South End101
Fenlake50
Harrowden27
Cardington15
Shortstown12
Littleworth4
Herring’s Green2
Cople1

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

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 Shortstown 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 Shortstown compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Castle73
2Cauldwell69
3Harpur66
4Kingsbrook64
5Eastcotts60
6Kempston North58
7Newnham52
8Kempston Central and East52
9Elstow and Stewartby48
10Kempston South40
11Wilshamstead20

Which road in Shortstown has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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