Crime Statistics for Bury Park, Luton, Luton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bury Park in August 2024. There were a total of 1771 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 Crime569
Anti Social Behaviour272
Shoplifting264
Public Order114
Criminal Damage Arson98
Vehicle Crime98
Drugs90
Other Theft88
Burglary62
Robbery30
Theft From The Person28
Other Crime24
Possession Of Weapons18
Bicycle Theft16
All Crime1771

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 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 Park1758
Hart Hill (1.39 miles)1464
Round Green (0.88 miles)963
Biscot (0.62 miles)881
Park Street (0.88 miles)617
Leagrave (2.24 miles)289
Stopsley (1.75 miles)276
Farley Hill (0.88 miles)87
Chaul End (1.86 miles)42
Caddington (1.75 miles)18

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 Park569
Hart Hill421
Round Green323
Biscot247
Park Street201
Stopsley102
Leagrave85
Farley Hill37
Chaul End24
Caddington4

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 this marker.

Last updated: August 2024
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