Crime Statistics for Heckington, Lincolnshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heckington in August 2024. There were a total of 131 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	64
Violent Crime	31
Other Theft	12
Public Order	12
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Vehicle Crime	4
All Crime	131

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Heckington. 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 Heckington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heckington	66
Ruskington (5.26 miles)	14
Great Hale (1.24 miles)	8
Little Hale (1.86 miles)	7
Helpringham (2.56 miles)	4
Anwick (4.16 miles)	3
Aswarby (5.85 miles)	3
Bicker Gauntlet (5.33 miles)	1
Evedon (3.62 miles)	1
Silk Willoughby (5.71 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Heckington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Heckington	31
Ruskington	6
Little Hale	3
Great Hale	2
Aswarby	2
Helpringham	1
Anwick	1
Bicker Gauntlet	1
Evedon	0
Silk Willoughby	0

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

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 Heckington 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 Heckington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sleaford Navigation	43
2	Sleaford Westholme	36
3	Sleaford Castle	30
4	Sleaford Holdingham	17
5	Swineshead and Holland Fen	14
6	Toller	14
7	Ruskington	6
8	Heckington Rural	4
9	Sleaford Quarrington and Mareham	3
10	Kirkby la Thorpe and South Kyme	3
11	Ashby de la Launde and Cranwell	1

Which road in Heckington has the highest level of crime?

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