Crime Statistics for Bitteswell, Harborough, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bitteswell in September 2024. There were a total of 38 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bitteswell, 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 Crime19
Shoplifting7
Public Order3
Vehicle Crime3
Anti Social Behaviour2
Bicycle Theft1
Burglary1
Other Theft1
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime38

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 Bitteswell. 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 Bitteswell

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bitteswell38
Misterton (1.75 miles)24
Claybrooke Parva (2.77 miles)11
Claybrooke Magna (3.1 miles)9
Churchover (3.34 miles)8
Ullesthorpe (2.24 miles)8
Dunton Bassett (3.17 miles)6
Ashby Parva (1.96 miles)5
Shawell (3.17 miles)5
Little Walton (2.77 miles)0

7.21%
of Lutterworth West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bitteswell?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bitteswell19
Misterton6
Claybrooke Magna5
Claybrooke Parva4
Ullesthorpe4
Churchover3
Dunton Bassett1
Ashby Parva1
Shawell0
Little Walton0

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

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 Bitteswell 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 Bitteswell compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Newbold and Brownsover56
2Yelvertoft49
3Lutterworth East45
4Misterton35
5Lutterworth West29
6Clifton, Newton and Churchover28
7Coton and Boughton27
8Ullesthorpe15
9Broughton Astley South & Leire15
10Dunton14
11Bosworth10

Which road in Bitteswell has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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