Crime Statistics for Belgrave, Leicester, City of Leicester, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Belgrave in October 2024. There were a total of 1530 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Belgrave, 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	417
Shoplifting	217
Public Order	178
Anti Social Behaviour	171
Other Theft	132
Vehicle Crime	96
Criminal Damage Arson	84
Drugs	59
Burglary	56
Robbery	36
Bicycle Theft	30
Theft From The Person	27
Other Crime	17
Possession Of Weapons	10
All Crime	1530

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 Belgrave. 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 Belgrave

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Belgrave	1473
Highfields (1.39 miles)	1208
Spinney Hills (1.39 miles)	1206
Clarendon Park (2.48 miles)	371
Nether Hall (2.48 miles)	366
Rushey Mead (0.88 miles)	324
Crown Hills (2.24 miles)	232
Beaumont Leys (2.24 miles)	214
Birstall (1.86 miles)	163
Thurmaston (2.24 miles)	153

Where are the most violent places near Belgrave?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Belgrave	417
Highfields	405
Spinney Hills	405
Crown Hills	207
Clarendon Park	137
Nether Hall	128
Rushey Mead	114
Beaumont Leys	75
Thurmaston	66
Birstall	54

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

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 Belgrave 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 Belgrave compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Beaumont Leys	79
2	Fosse	79
3	Abbey	77
4	Castle	77
5	Rushey Mead	60
6	North Evington	55
7	Stoneygate	52
8	Wycliffe	47
9	Birstall Watermead	46
10	Belgrave	40
11	Spinney Hills	32

Which road in Belgrave has the highest level of crime?

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