Crime Statistics for Barkston, South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barkston in September 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	2

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 Barkston. 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 Barkston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gonerby Hill Foot (3.1 miles)	85
Great Gonerby (3.1 miles)	22
Belton (1.39 miles)	7
Londonthorpe (2.78 miles)	3
Ancaster (3.34 miles)	3
Marston (2.77 miles)	2
Carlton Scroop (2.78 miles)	2
Barkston	2
Gelston (2.78 miles)	2
Syston (0.88 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Barkston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gonerby Hill Foot	33
Great Gonerby	8
Londonthorpe	2
Belton	1
Ancaster	1
Marston	1
Barkston	1
Syston	1
Carlton Scroop	0
Gelston	0

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

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 Barkston 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 Barkston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Grantham St Vincent's	51
2	Grantham Springfield	48
3	Grantham Earlesfield	47
4	Grantham Harrowby	43
5	Grantham St Wulfram's	37
6	Grantham Barrowby Gate	25
7	Grantham Arnoldfield	20
8	Peascliffe & Ridgeway	8
9	Belmont	7
10	Osbournby	4
11	Lincrest	2

Which road in Barkston has the highest level of crime?

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