Crime Statistics for Barkby, Charnwood, Leicestershire, 2025

Is Barkby rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 53 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 Barkby, 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	26
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Vehicle Crime	4
Public Order	3
Other Theft	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	53

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Belgrave (3.1 miles)	812
Rushey Mead (2.24 miles)	284
Nether Hall (1.86 miles)	222
Birstall (2.48 miles)	130
Thurmaston (1.24 miles)	121
Wanlip (1.96 miles)	100
Syston (1.39 miles)	95
Barkby	53
Barkby Thorpe	53
Beeby (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Barkby?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Belgrave	214
Rushey Mead	131
Nether Hall	85
Birstall	58
Thurmaston	57
Syston	53
Wanlip	41
Barkby	26
Barkby Thorpe	26
Beeby	0

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

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 Barkby 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 Barkby compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rushey Mead	60
2	Troon	60
3	Humberstone & Hamilton	56
4	Thurncourt	55
5	Queniborough	53
6	Birstall Watermead	46
7	Syston East	46
8	Thurmaston	46
9	Syston West	45
10	Birstall Wanlip	35
11	East Goscote	13

Which road in Barkby has the highest level of crime?

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