Crime Statistics for Barlestone, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barlestone in October 2024. There were a total of 12 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 Barlestone, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime3
Public Order2
Vehicle Crime2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Anti Social Behaviour1
Other Theft1
Other Crime1
All Crime12

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 Barlestone. 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 Barlestone

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Newbold Verdon (1.75 miles)18
Newbold Heath (1.24 miles)17
Barlestone12
Market Bosworth (1.75 miles)12
Bagworth (2.24 miles)11
Cadeby (1.86 miles)2
Belcher’s Bar (2.24 miles)1
Barton in the Beans (1.96 miles)0
Bufton (1.24 miles)0
Carlton (1.86 miles)0

2.79%
of Barlestone, Nailstone and Osbaston residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Barlestone?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Market Bosworth9
Newbold Verdon3
Newbold Heath3
Barlestone3
Bagworth2
Cadeby1
Belcher’s Bar1
Barton in the Beans0
Bufton0
Carlton0

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

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 Barlestone 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 Barlestone compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barlestone and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barlestone is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Ibstock West60
2Hugglescote St Mary's54
3Sence Valley50
4Barwell49
5Hugglescote St John's49
6Ratby, Bagworth and Thornton46
7Bardon43
8Ibstock East43
9Barlestone, Nailstone and Osbaston34
10Ellistown & Battleflat28
11Cadeby, Carlton and Market Bosworth with Shackerstone22

Which road in Barlestone has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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