Crime Statistics for Ampthill, Central Bedfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ampthill in September 2024. There were a total of 50 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 Ampthill, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime21
Anti Social Behaviour9
Vehicle Crime4
Other Theft4
Shoplifting4
Burglary4
Public Order2
Other Crime1
Drugs1
All Crime50

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 Ampthill. 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 Ampthill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ampthill50
Marston Moretaine (3.51 miles)48
Cooper’s Hill (0.62 miles)32
Maulden (1.39 miles)22
Silsoe (2.77 miles)19
Green End (1.96 miles)15
Wardhedges (2.24 miles)7
Millbrook (1.39 miles)6
Greenfield (2.24 miles)6
Bougton End (3.1 miles)3

5.81%
of Ampthill residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ampthill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ampthill21
Marston Moretaine19
Cooper’s Hill11
Maulden9
Silsoe8
Green End5
Wardhedges4
Greenfield3
Millbrook2
Bougton End0

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

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 Ampthill 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 Ampthill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Heath and Reach74
2Elstow and Stewartby48
3Houghton Conquest and Haynes41
4Kempston South40
5Ampthill29
6Westoning, Flitton and Greenfield27
7Flitwick25
8Cranfield and Marston Moretaine21
9Wootton21
10Wilshamstead20
11Silsoe and Shillington17

Which road in Ampthill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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