Crime Statistics for Dorcan, Wanborough, Swindon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dorcan in September 2024. There were a total of 411 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 Dorcan, 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	152
Anti Social Behaviour	76
Public Order	36
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Shoplifting	20
Other Theft	20
Vehicle Crime	20
Drugs	12
Other Crime	11
Robbery	8
Possession Of Weapons	8
Bicycle Theft	8
Burglary	4
All Crime	411

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 Dorcan. 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 Dorcan

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Stratton (1.39 miles)	293
Dorcan	206
Nythe (0.88 miles)	197
Lawn (1.96 miles)	187
Park (1.39 miles)	162
Coate (1.39 miles)	51
Wanborough (1.39 miles)	23
Badbury Wick (1.96 miles)	17
Lower Wanborough (1.39 miles)	6
Horpit (1.24 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Dorcan?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dorcan	152
Lower Stratton	94
Lawn	91
Nythe	82
Park	66
Coate	19
Wanborough	9
Badbury Wick	6
Lower Wanborough	4
Horpit	4

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

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 Dorcan 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 Dorcan compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Walcot and Park North	88
2	Central	85
3	Gorse Hill and Pinehurst	82
4	Eastcott	82
5	Liden, Eldene and Park South	69
6	Rodbourne Cheney	67
7	Old Town	59
8	Chiseldon and Lawn	55
9	St Margaret and South Marston	50
10	Covingham and Dorcan	45
11	Ridgeway	30

Which road in Dorcan has the highest level of crime?

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