Crime Statistics for Knighton Fields, Leicester, City of Leicester, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Knighton Fields in August 2024. There were a total of 341 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 Knighton Fields, 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 Crime140
Anti Social Behaviour43
Public Order39
Criminal Damage Arson38
Shoplifting21
Other Theft15
Vehicle Crime11
Drugs10
Burglary9
Robbery4
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons3
Bicycle Theft3
Theft From The Person2
All Crime341

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 Knighton Fields. 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 Knighton Fields

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Clarendon Park (0.62 miles)617
Stoneygate (0.88 miles)484
Aylestone (1.39 miles)395
Aylestone Park (0.62 miles)380
Knighton341
Knighton Fields341
Eyres Monsell (1.75 miles)283
South Knighton (0.62 miles)234
Oadby (1.96 miles)203
South Wigston (1.86 miles)161

31.04%
of Saffron residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Knighton Fields?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Clarendon Park246
Aylestone183
Stoneygate167
Aylestone Park147
Knighton140
Knighton Fields140
Eyres Monsell96
South Knighton94
Oadby84
South Wigston65

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

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 Knighton Fields 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 Knighton Fields compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Westcotes90
2Eyres Monsell88
3Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields88
4Aylestone85
5Saffron80
6Saxondale64
7Knighton59
8Wigston Fields46
9Wigston All Saints45
10Wigston St Wolstan's31
11Oadby Grange17

Which road in Knighton Fields has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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