Crime Statistics for Rushey Mead, Leicester, City of Leicester, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rushey Mead in October 2024. There were a total of 324 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 Rushey Mead, 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	114
Anti Social Behaviour	62
Public Order	31
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Vehicle Crime	24
Burglary	19
Other Theft	16
Drugs	9
Other Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	4
Shoplifting	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	1
All Crime	324

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 Rushey Mead. 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 Rushey Mead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Belgrave (0.88 miles)	1473
Highfields (1.86 miles)	1208
Spinney Hills (1.86 miles)	1206
Nether Hall (1.96 miles)	366
Rushey Mead	324
Birstall (1.39 miles)	163
Thurmaston (1.39 miles)	153
Wanlip (1.86 miles)	111
Barkby (2.24 miles)	48
Barkby Thorpe (2.24 miles)	46

Where are the most violent places near Rushey Mead?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Rushey Mead 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
Nether Hall	128
Rushey Mead	114
Thurmaston	66
Birstall	54
Wanlip	42
Barkby Thorpe	27
Barkby	22

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

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 Rushey Mead 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 Rushey Mead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey	77
2	Rushey Mead	60
3	Troon	60
4	Humberstone & Hamilton	56
5	North Evington	55
6	Wycliffe	47
7	Birstall Watermead	46
8	Thurmaston	46
9	Belgrave	40
10	Birstall Wanlip	35
11	Spinney Hills	32

Which road in Rushey Mead has the highest level of crime?

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