Crime Statistics for Bury Park, Luton, Luton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bury Park in September 2024. There were a total of 1647 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 Bury Park, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime443
Anti Social Behaviour270
Shoplifting180
Vehicle Crime160
Public Order144
Criminal Damage Arson120
Other Theft84
Drugs78
Burglary56
Theft From The Person32
Robbery32
Possession Of Weapons22
Other Crime20
Bicycle Theft6
All Crime1647

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 Bury Park. 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 Bury Park

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bury Park1513
Round Green (0.88 miles)932
Biscot (0.62 miles)881
Hart Hill (1.39 miles)752
Park Street (0.88 miles)603
Stopsley (1.75 miles)468
Leagrave (2.24 miles)242
Farley Hill (0.88 miles)79
Chaul End (1.86 miles)23
Caddington (1.75 miles)9

51.44%
of Dallow residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bury Park?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bury Park443
Round Green274
Biscot247
Hart Hill243
Stopsley187
Park Street160
Leagrave116
Farley Hill32
Chaul End6
Caddington1

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

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 Bury Park 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 Bury Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bury Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bury Park is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1South83
2Crawley79
3Farley79
4High Town75
5Challney74
6Limbury71
7Round Green71
8Biscot65
9Dallow62
10Saints53
11Caddington47

Which road in Bury Park has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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