Crime Statistics for Highbury Vale, Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highbury Vale in August 2024. There were a total of 901 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 Highbury Vale, 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	264
Anti Social Behaviour	209
Criminal Damage Arson	86
Public Order	74
Other Theft	70
Shoplifting	56
Burglary	38
Vehicle Crime	26
Other Crime	24
Drugs	20
Possession Of Weapons	14
Robbery	10
Theft From The Person	8
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	901

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 Highbury Vale. 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 Highbury Vale

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Basford (1.39 miles)	1189
Old Basford (0.88 miles)	919
Highbury Vale	799
Bulwell Forest (0.62 miles)	545
Aspley (1.39 miles)	524
Top Valley (0.88 miles)	482
Cinderhill (0.88 miles)	327
Bestwood (1.39 miles)	303
Bulwell (0.88 miles)	253
Hempshill Vale (1.24 miles)	181

Where are the most violent places near Highbury Vale?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Basford	399
Old Basford	328
Aspley	269
Highbury Vale	264
Bulwell Forest	230
Top Valley	146
Cinderhill	127
Bulwell	96
Bestwood	85
Hempshill Vale	79

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

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 Highbury Vale 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 Highbury Vale compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Aspley	88
2	Berridge	79
3	Bestwood	76
4	Basford	75
5	Bulwell	74
6	Bilborough	67
7	Bulwell Forest	64
8	Leen Valley	64
9	Kimberley	49
10	Nuthall East & Strelley	48
11	Wollaton West	25

Which road in Highbury Vale has the highest level of crime?

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