Crime Statistics for Coldham’s Common, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Coldham’s Common in September 2024. There were a total of 618 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	175
Violent Crime	150
Other Theft	49
Public Order	46
Vehicle Crime	37
Criminal Damage Arson	35
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Drugs	26
Bicycle Theft	24
Possession Of Weapons	12
Theft From The Person	11
Robbery	11
Other Crime	8
Burglary	3
All Crime	618

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 Coldham’s Common. 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 Coldham’s Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cambridge (0.62 miles)	681
Coldham’s Common	390
Arbury (2.24 miles)	266
Cherry Hinton (1.39 miles)	175
Fen Ditton (1.39 miles)	172
Teversham (1.24 miles)	163
Milton (2.48 miles)	141
Newnham (1.96 miles)	91
Cam (2.32 miles)	46
Fulbourn (2.77 miles)	22

Where are the most violent places near Coldham’s Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cambridge	164
Coldham’s Common	150
Arbury	71
Teversham	71
Fen Ditton	48
Cherry Hinton	47
Milton	35
Newnham	16
Cam	10
Fulbourn	7

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Coldham’s Common?

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 Coldham’s Common 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 Coldham’s Common compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	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 Coldham’s Common has the highest level of crime?

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