Crime Statistics for Grand Union Canal, Blaby, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Grand Union Canal in August 2024. There were a total of 162 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 Grand Union Canal, 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	55
Anti Social Behaviour	37
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Public Order	18
Shoplifting	8
Burglary	7
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	2
Drugs	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	162

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 Grand Union Canal. 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 Grand Union Canal

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Aylestone (1.28 miles)	395
Aylestone Park (2.08 miles)	380
Knighton Fields (2.42 miles)	341
Eyres Monsell (0.69 miles)	283
Grand Union Canal	162
South Wigston (1.55 miles)	161
Blaby (0.69 miles)	93
Enderby (2.26 miles)	48
Red Hill (2.26 miles)	38
Littlethorpe (1.99 miles)	32

Where are the most violent places near Grand Union Canal?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Aylestone	183
Aylestone Park	147
Knighton Fields	140
Eyres Monsell	96
South Wigston	65
Grand Union Canal	55
Blaby	33
Enderby	17
Red Hill	11
Littlethorpe	8

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Grand Union Canal?

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 Grand Union Canal 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 Grand Union Canal compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Grand Union Canal and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Grand Union Canal is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Eyres Monsell	88
2	Aylestone	85
3	Saxondale	64
4	Blaby South	59
5	South Wigston	47
6	Millfield	43
7	North Whetstone	35
8	Enderby and St John's	34
9	Narborough and Littlethorpe	29
10	Pastures	14
11	Cosby with South Whetstone	12

Which road in Grand Union Canal has the highest level of crime?

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