Crime Statistics for Great Bowden, Harborough, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Bowden in October 2024. There were a total of 94 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 Great Bowden, 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 Crime27
Shoplifting15
Public Order12
Burglary9
Other Theft8
Anti Social Behaviour6
Criminal Damage Arson5
Vehicle Crime5
Theft From The Person3
Other Crime2
Possession Of Weapons1
Drugs1
All Crime94

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 Great Bowden. 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 Great Bowden

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Market Harborough (0.88 miles)220
Little Bowden (0.62 miles)99
Great Bowden94
Church Langton (3.34 miles)7
Foxton (2.55 miles)7
Stoke Albany (3.77 miles)4
Marston Trussell (3.62 miles)1
Great Oxendon (3.17 miles)1
Tur Langton (4.16 miles)1
Ashley (3.34 miles)0

5.96%
of Market Harborough-Great Bowden & Arden residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Bowden?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Market Harborough74
Little Bowden30
Great Bowden27
Foxton5
Church Langton1
Tur Langton1
Stoke Albany0
Marston Trussell0
Great Oxendon0
Ashley0

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

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 Great Bowden 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 Great Bowden compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Lubenham41
2Welland41
3Welford38
4Market Harborough-Little Bowden38
5Desborough Loatland37
6Market Harborough-Logan30
7Kibworths29
8Market Harborough-Welland25
9Desborough St Giles24
10Market Harborough-Great Bowden & Arden23
11Fleckney18

Which road in Great Bowden has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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