Crime Statistics for Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, 2025

Is Milton Keynes rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 774 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Milton Keynes, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	249
Shoplifting	186
Anti Social Behaviour	70
Public Order	52
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Vehicle Crime	44
Robbery	32
Drugs	30
Other Theft	26
Theft From The Person	11
Other Crime	11
Burglary	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	774

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Conniburrow	1014
Milton Keynes	780
Neath Hill (0.62 miles)	774
Fishermead (0.88 miles)	523
Springfield (1.39 miles)	513
Eaglestone (1.39 miles)	398
Oldbrook (1.24 miles)	392
Downhead Park (0.88 miles)	351
Heelands (1.24 miles)	331
Oakgrove (1.39 miles)	278

Where are the most violent places near Milton Keynes?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Conniburrow	556
Springfield	261
Milton Keynes	249
Eaglestone	228
Neath Hill	218
Oldbrook	188
Fishermead	169
Oakgrove	126
Heelands	114
Downhead Park	83

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

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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Milton Keynes and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Milton Keynes is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bletchley East	76
2	Woughton & Fishermead	75
3	Central Milton Keynes	67
4	Wolverton	63
5	Campbell Park & Old Woughton	50
6	Stantonbury	46
7	Bradwell	41
8	Broughton	39
9	Shenley Brook End	38
10	Bletchley West	37
11	Newport Pagnell South	28

Which road in Milton Keynes has the highest level of crime?

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