Crime Statistics for Croft, Blaby, Leicestershire, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Croft in August 2024. There were a total of 11 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Croft, 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	5
Public Order	4
Other Crime	2
All Crime	11

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 Croft. 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 Croft

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stoney Stanton (1.39 miles)	81
Enderby (2.78 miles)	48
Red Hill (1.75 miles)	38
Broughton Astley (1.96 miles)	35
Littlethorpe (1.96 miles)	32
Potters Marston (1.39 miles)	21
Croft	11
Cosby (1.86 miles)	11
Thurlaston (2.56 miles)	0
Frolesworth (3.17 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Croft?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stoney Stanton	26
Enderby	17
Broughton Astley	15
Red Hill	11
Littlethorpe	8
Potters Marston	5
Croft	5
Cosby	3
Thurlaston	0
Frolesworth	0

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

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 Croft 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 Croft compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Croft and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Croft is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Earl Shilton	58
2	Barwell	49
3	North Whetstone	35
4	Normanton	34
5	Narborough and Littlethorpe	29
6	Stanton and Flamville	26
7	Broughton Astley-Primethorpe & Sutton	19
8	Broughton Astley South & Leire	15
9	Pastures	14
10	Dunton	14
11	Cosby with South Whetstone	12

Which road in Croft has the highest level of crime?

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