Crime Statistics for Newnham, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newnham in September 2024. There were a total of 91 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	38
Violent Crime	16
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Theft	6
Public Order	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Theft From The Person	3
Burglary	2
Other Crime	2
Robbery	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	91

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 Newnham. 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 Newnham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cambridge (1.39 miles)	681
Coldham’s Common (1.96 miles)	390
Arbury (1.86 miles)	266
Cherry Hinton (2.56 miles)	175
Newnham	91
Trumpington (1.86 miles)	65
Grantchester (1.39 miles)	34
High Cross (1.75 miles)	24
Bourn Brook (1.68 miles)	4
Cam (Rhee) (2.65 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Newnham?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Newnham 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
Cherry Hinton	47
Trumpington	19
Newnham	16
Grantchester	9
Bourn Brook	3
High Cross	2
Cam (Rhee)	2

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

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 Newnham 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 Newnham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Newnham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Newnham have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Arbury.

#	Ward	Score
1	Arbury	78
2	Market	78
3	Abbey	76
4	West Chesterton	65
5	Petersfield	58
6	Coleridge	56
7	Romsey	55
8	Trumpington	44
9	Queen Edith's	28
10	Castle	27
11	Newnham	23

Which road in Newnham has the highest level of crime?

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