Crime Statistics for Irchester, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Irchester in October 2024. There were a total of 21 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 Irchester, 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	10
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Drugs	2
Other Crime	1
Other Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	21

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 Irchester. 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 Irchester

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Warmonds Hill (2.63 miles)	252
Higham Ferrers (3.1 miles)	236
Rushden (1.96 miles)	234
Little Irchester (1.39 miles)	134
Little Wymington (1.86 miles)	112
Knuston (0.88 miles)	39
Irchester	21
Farndish (1.24 miles)	19
Podington (2.24 miles)	6
Great Doddington (2.56 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Irchester?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Irchester	108
Warmonds Hill	92
Higham Ferrers	90
Rushden	88
Little Wymington	80
Knuston	16
Irchester	10
Farndish	10
Podington	1
Great Doddington	0

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

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 Irchester 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 Irchester compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Swanspool	87
2	Isebrook	81
3	Finedon	63
4	Croyland	59
5	Great Doddington & Wilby	57
6	Rushden Spencer	52
7	Rushden Pemberton	46
8	Irthlingborough John Pyel	45
9	Irchester	42
10	Wollaston	36
11	Rushden Sartoris	35

Which road in Irchester has the highest level of crime?

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