Crime Statistics for Wandon End, Wigmore, Luton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wandon End in August 2024. There were a total of 112 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Wandon End, 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	23
Shoplifting	23
Other Theft	19
Possession Of Weapons	10
Vehicle Crime	9
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Drugs	4
Public Order	3
Theft From The Person	2
Burglary	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	112

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 Wandon End. 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 Wandon End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hart Hill (1.86 miles)	1464
Round Green (2.48 miles)	963
Stopsley (1.96 miles)	276
Cockernhoe (0.88 miles)	142
Mangrove Green (0.88 miles)	142
Wandon End	112
Tea Green (0.62 miles)	58
Breachwood Green (1.24 miles)	5
Bendish (1.96 miles)	2
Chiltern Green (1.86 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Wandon End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hart Hill	421
Round Green	323
Stopsley	102
Cockernhoe	37
Mangrove Green	37
Wandon End	23
Tea Green	19
Breachwood Green	2
Bendish	2
Chiltern Green	0

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

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 Wandon End 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 Wandon End compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	South	83
2	Crawley	79
3	Farley	79
4	High Town	75
5	Round Green	71
6	Stopsley	69
7	Biscot	65
8	Dallow	62
9	Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo	50
10	Barnfield	43
11	Wigmore	40

Which road in Wandon End has the highest level of crime?

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