Crime Statistics for Beggars Ash, Ledbury, Herefordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Beggars Ash in September 2024. There were a total of 46 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 Beggars Ash, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Shoplifting	6
Other Theft	4
Public Order	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	46

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Beggars Ash. 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 Beggars Ash

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Beggars Ash	45
New Mills (0.62 miles)	39
Ledbury (1.24 miles)	38
Pixley (2.56 miles)	3
Leadon (2.55 miles)	3
Bosbury (2.56 miles)	3
Lower Southfield (1.96 miles)	1
Waller’s Green (1.86 miles)	1
Rowland’s Green (2.24 miles)	1
Coddington (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Beggars Ash?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Beggars Ash	20
Ledbury	18
New Mills	17
Leadon	2
Bosbury	2
Pixley	1
Lower Southfield	1
Waller’s Green	1
Rowland’s Green	0
Coddington	0

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

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 Beggars Ash 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 Beggars Ash compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Priory	35
2	Upton and Hanley	35
3	Ledbury North	33
4	West	30
5	Ledbury West	28
6	Chase	27
7	Hope End	20
8	Old Gore	20
9	Morton	20
10	Wells	18

Which road in Beggars Ash has the highest level of crime?

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