Crime Statistics for Boultham, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Boultham in October 2024. There were a total of 527 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 Boultham, 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	188
Shoplifting	100
Anti Social Behaviour	78
Public Order	40
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Burglary	26
Other Theft	18
Drugs	16
Bicycle Theft	8
Robbery	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	527

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 Boultham. 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 Boultham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Boultham (0.62 miles)	685
Ermine (2.56 miles)	620
Boultham	501
Boultham Moor (0.88 miles)	205
Canwick (1.24 miles)	189
Birchwood (1.86 miles)	110
North Hykeham (2.24 miles)	65
Washingborough (3.77 miles)	17
South Hykeham (3.62 miles)	6
Fossdyke Navigation (3.68 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Boultham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ermine	376
New Boultham	256
Boultham	188
Canwick	69
Boultham Moor	61
Birchwood	33
North Hykeham	26
Washingborough	12
South Hykeham	4
Fossdyke Navigation	0

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

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 Boultham 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 Boultham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Boultham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Boultham is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Park	66
2	Moorland	62
3	Boultham	59
4	Carholme	56
5	Abbey	55
6	Witham	35
7	Hartsholme	32
8	North Hykeham Moor	13
9	North Hykeham Forum	13
10	North Hykeham Witham	9
11	North Hykeham Memorial	9

Which road in Boultham has the highest level of crime?

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