Crime Statistics for Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bassingbourn in October 2024. There were a total of 19 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	10
Violent Crime	5
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Burglary	1
All Crime	19

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 Bassingbourn. 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 Bassingbourn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Royston (1.75 miles)	100
Chiswick End (2.77 miles)	21
Bassingbourn	19
Kneesworth (0.88 miles)	17
Litlington (1.39 miles)	14
Dyer’s Green (1.75 miles)	9
Morden Green (2.55 miles)	8
Abington Pigotts (1.96 miles)	6
Gatley End (2.77 miles)	6
Shingay (2.63 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Bassingbourn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Royston	38
Chiswick End	10
Bassingbourn	5
Morden Green	5
Kneesworth	4
Dyer’s Green	4
Litlington	3
Gatley End	3
Abington Pigotts	2
Shingay	0

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

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 Bassingbourn 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 Bassingbourn compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ermine	54
2	Foxton	35
3	Bassingbourn	35
4	Harston & Comberton	32
5	Arbury	32
6	Barrington	28
7	The Mordens	26
8	Melbourn	26
9	Royston Palace	24
10	Royston Meridian	18
11	Royston Heath	8

Which road in Bassingbourn has the highest level of crime?

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