Crime Statistics for Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cherry Hinton in August 2024. There were a total of 199 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	51
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Public Order	10
Other Theft	10
Vehicle Crime	7
Burglary	6
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	199

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 Cherry Hinton. 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 Cherry Hinton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cambridge (1.75 miles)	717
Coldham’s Common (1.39 miles)	532
Fen Ditton (2.48 miles)	220
Cherry Hinton	199
Newnham (2.56 miles)	193
Teversham (1.39 miles)	125
Trumpington (2.77 miles)	104
Grantchester (3.16 miles)	51
Great Shelford (2.78 miles)	29
Fulbourn (1.86 miles)	22

Where are the most violent places near Cherry Hinton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cambridge	241
Coldham’s Common	139
Fen Ditton	57
Cherry Hinton	51
Newnham	39
Teversham	36
Trumpington	29
Grantchester	13
Great Shelford	9
Fulbourn	6

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

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 Cherry Hinton 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 Cherry Hinton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cherry Hinton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cherry Hinton is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Market	78
2	Abbey	76
3	Petersfield	58
4	Coleridge	56
5	Romsey	55
6	Trumpington	44
7	Fen Ditton & Fulbourn	38
8	Cherry Hinton	37
9	Queen Edith's	28
10	Castle	27
11	Newnham	23

Which road in Cherry Hinton has the highest level of crime?

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