Crime Statistics for Duston, Northampton, Northamptonshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Duston in September 2024. There were a total of 333 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 Duston, 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	107
Shoplifting	68
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Other Theft	22
Public Order	20
Drugs	12
Vehicle Crime	12
Burglary	10
Other Crime	8
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	333

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 Duston. 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 Duston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St James’s End (1.24 miles)	603
Far Cotton (2.24 miles)	357
Dallington (0.88 miles)	343
Duston	299
Briar Hill (0.88 miles)	275
New Duston (1.39 miles)	267
Shelfleys (1.96 miles)	22
Harpole (1.86 miles)	13
Harlestone (2.78 miles)	9
Rothersthorpe (2.56 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Duston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St James’s End	201
Far Cotton	138
Dallington	124
Briar Hill	116
Duston	107
New Duston	91
Shelfleys	11
Harpole	3
Harlestone	3
Rothersthorpe	0

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

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 Duston 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 Duston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Duston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Duston is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	92
2	Delapre and Briar Hill	85
3	St James	83
4	Semilong	81
5	Kings Heath	81
6	Spencer	77
7	Old Duston	68
8	Upton	60
9	West Hunsbury	43
10	New Duston	34
11	East Hunsbury	29

Which road in Duston has the highest level of crime?

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