Crime Statistics for Thurcaston, Charnwood, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Thurcaston in September 2024. There were a total of 52 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 Thurcaston, 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	18
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Vehicle Crime	6
Public Order	5
Burglary	4
Other Theft	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Crime	2
Drugs	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	52

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 Thurcaston. 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 Thurcaston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Beaumont Leys (1.24 miles)	205
Birstall (1.96 miles)	162
Wanlip (2.48 miles)	107
Anstey (1.75 miles)	57
Thurcaston	52
Cossington (3.1 miles)	22
Cropston (0.88 miles)	9
Rothley Plain (1.86 miles)	8
The Brand (2.63 miles)	4
Swithland (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Thurcaston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Beaumont Leys	86
Birstall	48
Wanlip	43
Anstey	19
Cossington	19
Thurcaston	18
Cropston	4
Rothley Plain	4
The Brand	1
Swithland	0

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

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 Thurcaston 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 Thurcaston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Thurcaston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Thurcaston is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Beaumont Leys	79
2	Fairestone	69
3	Rushey Mead	60
4	Forest Bradgate	51
5	Anstey	49
6	Birstall Watermead	46
7	Thurmaston	46
8	Rothley and Thurcaston	36
9	Birstall Wanlip	35
10	Groby	33
11	Mountsorrel	30

Which road in Thurcaston has the highest level of crime?

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