Crime Statistics for Mangrove Green, Wigmore, Luton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Mangrove Green in October 2024. There were a total of 370 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Shoplifting108
Violent Crime85
Anti Social Behaviour50
Public Order32
Vehicle Crime24
Criminal Damage Arson20
Other Theft20
Other Crime11
Possession Of Weapons6
Drugs4
Bicycle Theft4
Burglary4
Theft From The Person2
All Crime370

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 Mangrove Green. 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 Mangrove Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Biscot (2.55 miles)1162
Round Green (1.96 miles)891
Hart Hill (1.39 miles)731
Mangrove Green365
Stopsley (1.24 miles)289
Cockernhoe189
Wandon End (0.88 miles)121
Tea Green (0.62 miles)39
Great Offley (2.24 miles)7
Breachwood Green (1.96 miles)3

6.85%
of Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Mangrove Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Biscot378
Round Green232
Hart Hill182
Stopsley87
Mangrove Green85
Cockernhoe46
Wandon End23
Tea Green15
Great Offley3
Breachwood Green0

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

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 Mangrove Green 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 Mangrove Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1South83
2Crawley79
3Farley79
4High Town75
5Round Green71
6Stopsley69
7Biscot65
8Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo50
9Toddington48
10Barnfield43
11Wigmore40

Which road in Mangrove Green has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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