Crime Statistics for Fen Ditton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fen Ditton in August 2024. There were a total of 220 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 Fen Ditton, 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	57
Shoplifting	45
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Public Order	15
Other Theft	10
Vehicle Crime	7
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
Bicycle Theft	4
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	220

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 Fen Ditton. 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 Fen Ditton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cambridge (1.75 miles)	717
Coldham’s Common (1.39 miles)	532
Arbury (2.48 miles)	266
Fen Ditton	220
Milton (1.39 miles)	207
Cherry Hinton (2.48 miles)	199
Teversham (1.39 miles)	125
Cam (0.95 miles)	81
Stow cum Quy (2.48 miles)	8
Horningsea (1.39 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Fen Ditton?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Fen Ditton 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
Arbury	71
Fen Ditton	57
Cherry Hinton	51
Milton	39
Teversham	36
Cam	15
Stow cum Quy	0
Horningsea	0

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

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 Fen Ditton 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 Fen Ditton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fen Ditton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Fen Ditton is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	King's Hedges	89
2	Abbey	76
3	East Chesterton	66
4	West Chesterton	65
5	Petersfield	58
6	Coleridge	56
7	Romsey	55
8	Trumpington	44
9	Fen Ditton & Fulbourn	38
10	Cherry Hinton	37
11	Milton & Waterbeach	32

Which road in Fen Ditton has the highest level of crime?

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