Crime Statistics for Spon End, Coventry, Coventry, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Spon End in October 2024. There were a total of 831 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Spon End, 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	300
Public Order	85
Shoplifting	77
Vehicle Crime	68
Criminal Damage Arson	67
Other Theft	60
Burglary	39
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Drugs	24
Robbery	23
Theft From The Person	20
Possession Of Weapons	15
Bicycle Theft	14
Other Crime	13
All Crime	831

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 Spon End. 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 Spon End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Great Heath (1.39 miles)	1148
Radford (0.62 miles)	1110
Sowe (1.33 miles)	819
Gosford Green (1.39 miles)	803
Spon End	669
Edgwick (1.75 miles)	607
Chapel Fields (0.62 miles)	548
Canley (1.75 miles)	295
Cheylesmore (1.39 miles)	213
Earlsdon (1.39 miles)	158

Where are the most violent places near Spon End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Great Heath	401
Radford	397
Sowe	333
Spon End	300
Gosford Green	282
Edgwick	221
Chapel Fields	157
Cheylesmore	82
Canley	76
Earlsdon	40

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

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 Spon End 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 Spon End compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Spon End and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Spon End is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Radford	71
2	St Michael's	64
3	Holbrook	60
4	Lower Stoke	58
5	Sherbourne	54
6	Bablake	53
7	Westwood	43
8	Whoberley	42
9	Earlsdon	35
10	Cheylesmore	31
11	Wainbody	10

Which road in Spon End has the highest level of crime?

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