Crime Statistics for Foston, Harborough, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Foston in August 2024. There were a total of 26 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Shoplifting14
Violent Crime5
Vehicle Crime2
Public Order2
Anti Social Behaviour1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime26

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Eyres Monsell (3.1 miles)283
Grand Union Canal (2.86 miles)162
South Wigston (1.96 miles)161
Blaby (2.77 miles)93
Foston26
Great Glen (3.34 miles)24
Kilby Bridge (1.39 miles)22
Newton Harcourt (1.96 miles)4
Peatling Magna (1.96 miles)2
Kilby (1.24 miles)0

3.48%
of Countesthorpe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Foston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Eyres Monsell96
South Wigston65
Grand Union Canal55
Blaby33
Kilby Bridge19
Great Glen7
Foston5
Newton Harcourt0
Peatling Magna0
Kilby0

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

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 Foston 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 Foston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Eyres Monsell88
2Saxondale64
3Blaby South59
4South Wigston47
5Wigston Fields46
6Wigston All Saints45
7North Whetstone35
8Wigston St Wolstan's31
9Countesthorpe24
10Wigston Meadowcourt22
11Cosby with South Whetstone12

Which road in Foston has the highest level of crime?

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

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