Crime Statistics for Holywell, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holywell in August 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	2

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 Holywell. 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 Holywell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Ives (2.24 miles)	80
Great Ouse (2.49 miles)	36
Needingworth (1.39 miles)	30
Fenstanton (1.75 miles)	23
Fen Drayton (1.24 miles)	18
Boxworth End (2.63 miles)	14
Hemingford Grey (2.48 miles)	13
Bluntisham (3.1 miles)	2
Holywell	2
The Green (3.51 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Holywell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Ives	42
Fenstanton	13
Fen Drayton	10
Boxworth End	9
Great Ouse	8
Hemingford Grey	5
Needingworth	2
Bluntisham	1
Holywell	0
The Green	0

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

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 Holywell 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 Holywell compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Ives West	40
2	Over & Willingham	33
3	St Ives South	33
4	Caxton & Papworth	32
5	Bar Hill	31
6	Fenstanton	31
7	St Ives East	31
8	Swavesey	30
9	Hemingford Grey & Houghton	25
10	Holywell-cum-Needingworth	21
11	Somersham	19

Which road in Holywell has the highest level of crime?

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