Crime Statistics for Broad Blunsdon, Swindon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broad Blunsdon in September 2024. There were a total of 94 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 Broad Blunsdon, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime32
Shoplifting21
Anti Social Behaviour17
Public Order7
Other Crime4
Other Theft4
Vehicle Crime4
Bicycle Theft2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Robbery1
All Crime94

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 Broad Blunsdon. 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 Broad Blunsdon

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blunsdon St Andrew (1.39 miles)255
Pinehurst (1.86 miles)248
Penhill (1.24 miles)214
Greenmeadow (1.96 miles)209
Stratton St Margaret (2.24 miles)137
Moredon (2.24 miles)126
Broad Blunsdon94
Broadbush94
Lower Blunsdon (0.88 miles)45
Hampton (2.24 miles)1

18.47%
of St Andrews (Swindon) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Broad Blunsdon?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Pinehurst95
Blunsdon St Andrew90
Greenmeadow88
Penhill80
Moredon55
Stratton St Margaret45
Broad Blunsdon32
Broadbush32
Lower Blunsdon16
Hampton0

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

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 Broad Blunsdon 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 Broad Blunsdon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Walcot and Park North88
2Central85
3Gorse Hill and Pinehurst82
4Penhill and Upper Stratton70
5Rodbourne Cheney67
6Mannington and Western60
7St Margaret and South Marston50
8Haydon Wick47
9St Andrews45
10Shaw42
11Priory Vale41

Which road in Broad Blunsdon has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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