Crime Statistics for Thurmaston, Charnwood, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Thurmaston in October 2024. There were a total of 181 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 Thurmaston, 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	66
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Public Order	18
Vehicle Crime	16
Shoplifting	15
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	10
Burglary	10
Drugs	5
Other Crime	4
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	181

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 Thurmaston. 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 Thurmaston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Belgrave (2.24 miles)	1473
Nether Hall (2.24 miles)	366
Rushey Mead (1.39 miles)	324
Birstall (1.24 miles)	163
Thurmaston	153
Syston (1.39 miles)	126
Wanlip (0.88 miles)	111
Barkby (1.24 miles)	48
Barkby Thorpe (1.24 miles)	46
Cossington (2.56 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Thurmaston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Belgrave	417
Nether Hall	128
Rushey Mead	114
Thurmaston	66
Birstall	54
Syston	43
Wanlip	42
Barkby Thorpe	27
Barkby	22
Cossington	2

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

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 Thurmaston 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 Thurmaston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rushey Mead	60
2	Troon	60
3	Humberstone & Hamilton	56
4	Thurncourt	55
5	Queniborough	53
6	Birstall Watermead	46
7	Syston East	46
8	Thurmaston	46
9	Syston West	45
10	Belgrave	40
11	Birstall Wanlip	35

Which road in Thurmaston has the highest level of crime?

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