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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hollycroft in October 2024. There were a total of 275 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 Hollycroft, 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	109
Shoplifting	45
Other Theft	24
Vehicle Crime	22
Public Order	19
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Crime	6
Bicycle Theft	4
Drugs	4
Burglary	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	275

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 Hollycroft. 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 Hollycroft

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Weddington (3.34 miles)	369
Attleborough (3.51 miles)	315
Hollycroft	257
St Nicolas Park (2.56 miles)	253
Barwell (2.63 miles)	72
Burbage (2.24 miles)	55
Higham on the Hill (1.96 miles)	25
Dadlington (2.56 miles)	7
Stoke Golding (1.96 miles)	7
Aston Flamville (3.34 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Hollycroft?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Weddington	130
Hollycroft	109
Attleborough	104
St Nicolas Park	71
Barwell	42
Burbage	28
Higham on the Hill	11
Dadlington	2
Stoke Golding	2
Aston Flamville	1

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

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 Hollycroft 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 Hollycroft compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hollycroft and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hollycroft is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hinckley Castle	56
2	Hinckley Trinity	50
3	Burbage St Catherines and Lash Hill	49
4	Bulkington	41
5	St Nicolas	39
6	Hinckley Clarendon	37
7	Hinckley De Montfort	33
8	Croft Hill	29
9	Burbage Sketchley and Stretton	28
10	Ambien	27
11	Stanton and Flamville	26

Which road in Hollycroft has the highest level of crime?

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