Crime Statistics for New Parks, Leicester, City of Leicester, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Parks in October 2024. There were a total of 374 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 New Parks, 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	164
Criminal Damage Arson	37
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Other Theft	28
Burglary	26
Public Order	26
Shoplifting	18
Vehicle Crime	14
Other Crime	13
Possession Of Weapons	6
Drugs	5
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	374

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 New Parks. 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 New Parks

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Belgrave (2.56 miles)	1473
Highfields (3.16 miles)	1208
Spinney Hills (3.16 miles)	1206
Aylestone Park (3.1 miles)	686
Clarendon Park (3.1 miles)	371
New Parks	346
Beaumont Leys (1.96 miles)	214
Rothley (1.12 miles)	116
Anstey (1.96 miles)	59
Ratby (2.48 miles)	37

Where are the most violent places near New Parks?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to New Parks 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
Aylestone Park	271
New Parks	164
Clarendon Park	137
Beaumont Leys	75
Anstey	34
Rothley	30
Ratby	15

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

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 New Parks 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 New Parks compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields	88
2	Western	86
3	Beaumont Leys	79
4	Fosse	79
5	Fairestone	69
6	Ravenhurst and Fosse	65
7	Winstanley	58
8	Ellis	55
9	Forest	41
10	Groby	33
11	Muxloe	29

Which road in New Parks has the highest level of crime?

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