Crime Statistics for Leagrave, Lewsey Farm, Luton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Leagrave in September 2024. There were a total of 305 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 Leagrave, 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	116
Anti Social Behaviour	45
Other Theft	31
Vehicle Crime	28
Public Order	23
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Drugs	10
Other Crime	9
Burglary	8
Shoplifting	5
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	305

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 Leagrave. 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 Leagrave

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bury Park (2.24 miles)	1513
Round Green (2.56 miles)	932
Biscot (1.96 miles)	881
Bidwell (2.55 miles)	268
Leagrave	242
Parkside (1.96 miles)	226
Farley Hill (2.24 miles)	79
Lower Sundon (2.48 miles)	64
Downside (2.24 miles)	47
Chaul End (1.24 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near Leagrave?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bury Park	443
Round Green	274
Biscot	247
Leagrave	116
Bidwell	104
Parkside	68
Farley Hill	32
Lower Sundon	22
Downside	16
Chaul End	6

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

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 Leagrave 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 Leagrave compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Leagrave and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Leagrave is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dunstable-Manshead	86
2	Parkside	85
3	Houghton Hall	76
4	Challney	74
5	Limbury	71
6	Northwell	71
7	Lewsey	71
8	Leagrave	68
9	Sundon Park	62
10	Dunstable-Icknield	62
11	Saints	53

Which road in Leagrave has the highest level of crime?

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