Crime Statistics for Rushden, Northamptonshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rushden in September 2024. There were a total of 202 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 Rushden, 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	86
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Shoplifting	30
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Vehicle Crime	11
Public Order	9
Other Theft	7
Drugs	4
Burglary	4
Robbery	3
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	202

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 Rushden. 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 Rushden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rushden	202
Higham Ferrers (1.39 miles)	194
Warmonds Hill (1.24 miles)	179
Little Wymington (0.62 miles)	53
Irthlingborough (2.56 miles)	40
Knuston (1.24 miles)	29
Irchester (1.96 miles)	17
Caldecott (2.24 miles)	8
Til (2.53 miles)	0
Newton Bromswold (2.56 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Rushden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Higham Ferrers	90
Rushden	86
Warmonds Hill	73
Little Wymington	18
Irthlingborough	15
Knuston	12
Irchester	6
Caldecott	4
Til	0
Newton Bromswold	0

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

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 Rushden 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 Rushden compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rushden and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rushden is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Isebrook	81
2	Finedon	63
3	Rushden Hayden	59
4	Rushden Spencer	52
5	Rushden Bates	48
6	Rushden Pemberton	46
7	Irthlingborough John Pyel	45
8	Irchester	42
9	Higham Ferrers Lancaster	41
10	Higham Ferrers Chichele	38
11	Rushden Sartoris	35

Which road in Rushden has the highest level of crime?

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