Crime Statistics for Histon, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Histon in October 2024. There were a total of 41 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	8
Violent Crime	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Burglary	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Theft	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Other Crime	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	41

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 Histon. 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 Histon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Milton (2.55 miles)	286
Arbury (1.96 miles)	216
Impington (0.62 miles)	52
Histon	41
Bar Hill (3.1 miles)	25
High Cross (2.56 miles)	14
Oakington (1.39 miles)	7
Rampton (2.56 miles)	5
Landbeach (2.77 miles)	2
Madingley (3.1 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Histon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Milton	106
Arbury	72
Impington	13
Histon	7
Bar Hill	6
High Cross	3
Rampton	2
Oakington	1
Landbeach	0
Madingley	0

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

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 Histon 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 Histon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	King's Hedges	89
2	Arbury	78
3	Market	78
4	East Chesterton	66
5	West Chesterton	65
6	Histon & Impington	42
7	Longstanton	34
8	Milton & Waterbeach	32
9	Cottenham	32
10	Girton	27
11	Castle	27

Which road in Histon has the highest level of crime?

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