Crime Statistics for Syston, Charnwood, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Syston in October 2024. There were a total of 126 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 Syston, 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	43
Shoplifting	19
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Theft	10
Public Order	9
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Crime	5
Drugs	4
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	126

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 Syston. 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 Syston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Birstall (2.24 miles)	163
Thurmaston (1.39 miles)	153
Syston	126
Wanlip (1.39 miles)	111
Sileby (2.78 miles)	72
Barkby (1.39 miles)	48
Barkby Thorpe (1.39 miles)	46
Rearsby (2.63 miles)	14
Ratcliffe on the Wreake (1.96 miles)	8
Cossington (1.75 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Syston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Thurmaston	66
Birstall	54
Syston	43
Wanlip	42
Barkby Thorpe	27
Sileby	24
Barkby	22
Rearsby	8
Ratcliffe on the Wreake	5
Cossington	2

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

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 Syston 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 Syston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Syston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Syston is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rushey Mead	60
2	Troon	60
3	Humberstone & Hamilton	56
4	Queniborough	53
5	Birstall Watermead	46
6	Syston East	46
7	Thurmaston	46
8	Syston West	45
9	Barrow and Sileby West	37
10	Birstall Wanlip	35
11	East Goscote	13

Which road in Syston has the highest level of crime?

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