Crime Statistics for Stotfold, Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stotfold in September 2024. There were a total of 36 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour16
Violent Crime11
Other Theft4
Public Order2
Burglary1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime36

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Stotfold. 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 Stotfold

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Norton (1.75 miles)199
Baldock (2.63 miles)127
Radwell (0.88 miles)56
Arlesey (1.39 miles)48
Astwick (1.24 miles)41
Stotfold36
Henlow (2.77 miles)20
Caldecote (1.75 miles)19
Hiz (1.83 miles)19
Newnham (1.96 miles)13

8.05%
of Arlesey residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Stotfold?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Norton73
Baldock64
Arlesey50
Radwell22
Astwick16
Hiz13
Stotfold11
Henlow10
Caldecote6
Newnham4

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

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 Stotfold 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 Stotfold compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Baldock Town46
2Letchworth Wilbury45
3Letchworth East45
4Letchworth South West43
5Letchworth South East41
6Letchworth Grange40
7Cadwell40
8Arbury32
9Baldock East25
10Arlesey20
11Stotfold and Langford15

Which road in Stotfold has the highest level of crime?

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

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