Crime Statistics for Hardingstone, Northampton, Northamptonshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hardingstone in August 2024. There were a total of 141 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 Hardingstone, 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	55
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Public Order	15
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Theft	13
Drugs	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	3
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	141

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 Hardingstone. 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 Hardingstone

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St James’s End (2.24 miles)	1196
Abington (2.56 miles)	722
Far Cotton (0.88 miles)	190
Briar Hill (2.24 miles)	170
Hardingstone	141
Collingtree (1.39 miles)	42
Shelfleys (1.86 miles)	21
Little Houghton (2.77 miles)	8
Milton Malsor (2.24 miles)	8
Great Houghton (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Hardingstone?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St James’s End	576
Abington	319
Far Cotton	113
Hardingstone	55
Briar Hill	42
Collingtree	14
Little Houghton	10
Shelfleys	4
Milton Malsor	2
Great Houghton	1

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

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 Hardingstone 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 Hardingstone compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	92
2	Delapre and Briar Hill	85
3	Abington	84
4	St James	83
5	Harpole and Grange	51
6	Rushmills	48
7	West Hunsbury	43
8	East Hunsbury	29
9	Brafield and Yardley	21
10	Nene Valley	16
11	Grange Park	14

Which road in Hardingstone has the highest level of crime?

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