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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Wigston in October 2024. There were a total of 598 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 South Wigston, 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	252
Public Order	60
Anti Social Behaviour	56
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Shoplifting	44
Vehicle Crime	32
Other Theft	24
Burglary	20
Robbery	16
Drugs	16
Possession Of Weapons	12
Other Crime	10
Bicycle Theft	8
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	598

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 South Wigston. 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 South Wigston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Knighton Fields (1.86 miles)	634
Knighton (1.86 miles)	609
Aylestone (1.76 miles)	327
South Wigston	300
Eyres Monsell (1.39 miles)	220
South Knighton (1.96 miles)	220
Grand Union Canal (1.55 miles)	144
Blaby (1.96 miles)	82
Kilby Bridge (1.39 miles)	31
Foston (1.96 miles)	30

Where are the most violent places near South Wigston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Knighton Fields	488
South Wigston	252
Knighton	230
Aylestone	111
Eyres Monsell	88
South Knighton	87
Grand Union Canal	51
Blaby	27
Kilby Bridge	13
Foston	1

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

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 South Wigston 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 South Wigston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Eyres Monsell	88
2	Aylestone	85
3	Saffron	80
4	Saxondale	64
5	Blaby South	59
6	South Wigston	47
7	Wigston Fields	46
8	Wigston All Saints	45
9	Wigston St Wolstan's	31
10	Wigston Meadowcourt	22
11	Cosby with South Whetstone	12

Which road in South Wigston has the highest level of crime?

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