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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Knighton in October 2024. There were a total of 620 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Knighton, 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	230
Criminal Damage Arson	80
Anti Social Behaviour	76
Vehicle Crime	44
Public Order	34
Other Theft	32
Drugs	32
Shoplifting	32
Burglary	30
Other Crime	12
Possession Of Weapons	8
Robbery	6
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	620

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 Knighton. 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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Aylestone Park (0.62 miles)	686
Knighton Fields	634
Knighton	609
Clarendon Park (0.62 miles)	371
Aylestone (1.39 miles)	327
South Wigston (1.86 miles)	300
Stoneygate (0.88 miles)	288
Eyres Monsell (1.75 miles)	220
South Knighton (0.62 miles)	220
Oadby (1.96 miles)	131

Where are the most violent places near Knighton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Knighton Fields	488
Aylestone Park	271
South Wigston	252
Knighton	230
Clarendon Park	137
Aylestone	111
Stoneygate	106
Eyres Monsell	88
South Knighton	87
Oadby	51

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Westcotes	90
2	Eyres Monsell	88
3	Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields	88
4	Aylestone	85
5	Saffron	80
6	Saxondale	64
7	Knighton	59
8	Wigston Fields	46
9	Wigston All Saints	45
10	Wigston St Wolstan's	31
11	Oadby Grange	17

Which road in Knighton has the highest level of crime?

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