Crime Statistics for Oadby, Oadby and Wigston, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Oadby in September 2024. There were a total of 246 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 Oadby, 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	101
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Public Order	26
Vehicle Crime	19
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Other Theft	12
Burglary	11
Shoplifting	10
Other Crime	7
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	246

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Knighton (1.96 miles)	714
Knighton Fields (1.96 miles)	713
Clarendon Park (2.24 miles)	675
Stoneygate (1.75 miles)	321
Evington (1.86 miles)	316
South Knighton (1.39 miles)	267
Oadby	217
Stoughton (1.76 miles)	30
Kilby Bridge (1.96 miles)	25
Great Stretton (1.86 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Oadby?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Knighton Fields	536
Knighton	526
Clarendon Park	257
South Knighton	148
Evington	143
Stoneygate	107
Oadby	101
Kilby Bridge	13
Stoughton	10
Great Stretton	10

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

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 Oadby 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 Oadby compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Oadby and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Oadby is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Knighton	59
2	Evington	55
3	Oadby St Peter's	48
4	Wigston Fields	46
5	Wigston All Saints	45
6	Wigston St Wolstan's	31
7	Wigston Meadowcourt	22
8	Oadby Brocks Hill	20
9	Oadby Woodlands	19
10	Oadby Grange	17
11	Oadby Uplands	16

Which road in Oadby has the highest level of crime?

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