Crime Statistics for Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Downham in September 2024. There was only 2 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Little Downham, 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	2
All Crime	2

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 Little Downham. 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 Little Downham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sandhill (3.61 miles)	106
Littleport (3.1 miles)	94
Ely (2.24 miles)	94
Manea (4.47 miles)	16
Chettisham (1.24 miles)	14
California (0.88 miles)	8
Black Bank (1.39 miles)	3
Little Downham	2
Little Thetford (4.39 miles)	0
Old Bedford River (3.8 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Little Downham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ely	38
Sandhill	36
Littleport	29
Manea	6
Chettisham	6
Black Bank	2
Little Downham	2
California	1
Little Thetford	0
Old Bedford River	0

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

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 Little Downham 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 Little Downham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Manea	40
2	Littleport	30
3	Ely East	25
4	Soham North	23
5	Ely North	23
6	Stretham	23
7	Ely West	21
8	Haddenham	19
9	Downham Villages	16
10	Feltwell	15
11	Sutton	15

Which road in Little Downham has the highest level of crime?

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