Crime Statistics for Spon Green, Buckley, Flintshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Spon Green in October 2024. There were a total of 107 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 Spon Green, 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	34
Anti Social Behaviour	33
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Shoplifting	9
Public Order	8
Possession Of Weapons	3
Other Crime	3
Burglary	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Other Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	107

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 Green. 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 Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burntwood Pentre (0.88 miles)	135
Buckley (Bwcle) (0.88 miles)	104
Bwcle (Buckley) (0.88 miles)	104
Lane End	92
Drury (0.88 miles)	82
Spon Green	76
Little Mountain (0.62 miles)	71
Alltami (1.75 miles)	38
Ewloe Green (1.86 miles)	25
Pontblyddyn (1.96 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Spon Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Burntwood Pentre	37
Buckley (Bwcle)	34
Spon Green	34
Bwcle (Buckley)	32
Lane End	24
Drury	21
Little Mountain	19
Alltami	15
Ewloe Green	13
Pontblyddyn	4

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

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 Green 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 Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Spon Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Spon Green is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Buckley Mountain	97
2	Buckley Bistre East	96
3	Buckley Bistre West	96
4	Buckley Pentrobin	96
5	Ewloe	96
6	Llanfynydd	95
7	Penyffordd	95
8	Leeswood	95
9	Argoed	95
10	New Brighton	94
11	Hawarden	94

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

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