Crime Statistics for Downhead Park, Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Downhead Park in October 2024. There were a total of 702 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 Downhead 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	220
Shoplifting	128
Public Order	62
Other Theft	60
Vehicle Crime	56
Criminal Damage Arson	52
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Drugs	16
Theft From The Person	14
Burglary	12
Other Crime	10
Robbery	10
Possession Of Weapons	6
Bicycle Theft	6
All Crime	702

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 Downhead 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 Downhead Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Downhead Park	607
Conniburrow (0.88 miles)	606
Milton Keynes (0.88 miles)	606
Fishermead (1.24 miles)	549
Neath Hill (0.62 miles)	406
Great Linford (1.39 miles)	236
Giffard Park (1.24 miles)	162
Blakelands (1.24 miles)	162
Tongwell (0.88 miles)	147
Pineham (1.39 miles)	49

Where are the most violent places near Downhead Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Downhead Park	220
Neath Hill	187
Fishermead	171
Conniburrow	166
Milton Keynes	166
Great Linford	122
Tongwell	71
Giffard Park	62
Blakelands	62
Pineham	15

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Downhead 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 Downhead 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 Downhead Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Woughton & Fishermead	75
2	Central Milton Keynes	67
3	Wolverton	63
4	Campbell Park & Old Woughton	50
5	Stantonbury	46
6	Bradwell	41
7	Broughton	39
8	Shenley Brook End	38
9	Monkston	31
10	Newport Pagnell South	28
11	Olney	16

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

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