Crime Statistics for Paston, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Paston in October 2024. There were a total of 424 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Paston, 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	190
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Criminal Damage Arson	43
Public Order	28
Vehicle Crime	27
Other Theft	27
Drugs	16
Shoplifting	16
Possession Of Weapons	13
Other Crime	12
Burglary	6
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	424

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 Paston. 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 Paston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Millfield (1.39 miles)	653
New England (0.88 miles)	494
Walton (1.24 miles)	424
Ravensthorpe (2.24 miles)	320
Paston	307
Bretton (2.24 miles)	286
Newark (1.75 miles)	248
Eye (1.86 miles)	66
Eye Green (1.96 miles)	36
Newborough (1.96 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Paston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Millfield	314
New England	197
Paston	190
Ravensthorpe	170
Bretton	161
Walton	159
Newark	103
Eye	30
Eye Green	14
Newborough	1

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

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 Paston 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 Paston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dogsthorpe	92
2	North	86
3	Central	82
4	East	80
5	Park	79
6	Paston and Walton	78
7	Ravensthorpe	77
8	Eye, Thorney and Newborough	68
9	Gunthorpe	59
10	Glinton and Castor	48
11	Werrington	32

Which road in Paston has the highest level of crime?

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