Crime Statistics for Evington, Oadby and Wigston, City of Leicester, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Evington in August 2024. There were a total of 336 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 Evington, 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	111
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Shoplifting	29
Vehicle Crime	28
Other Theft	26
Public Order	24
Burglary	16
Drugs	8
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	336

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Evington. 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 Evington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Spinney Hills (1.39 miles)	1078
Highfields (1.39 miles)	876
Stoneygate (1.39 miles)	484
Crown Hills (0.62 miles)	417
Evington	263
South Knighton (1.76 miles)	234
Oadby (1.86 miles)	203
Thurnby (1.39 miles)	202
Bushby (1.96 miles)	103
Stoughton (1.39 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Evington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Highfields	485
Spinney Hills	353
Crown Hills	244
Stoneygate	167
Thurnby	126
Evington	111
South Knighton	94
Oadby	84
Bushby	47
Stoughton	11

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

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 Evington 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 Evington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Evington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Evington is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Knighton	59
2	Evington	55
3	North Evington	55
4	Thurncourt	55
5	Stoneygate	52
6	Oadby St Peter's	48
7	Wycliffe	47
8	Thurnby & Houghton	36
9	Spinney Hills	32
10	Oadby Grange	17
11	Oadby Uplands	16

Which road in Evington has the highest level of crime?

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