Crime Statistics for Gorse Hill, Swindon, Swindon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gorse Hill in August 2024. There were a total of 574 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 Gorse Hill, 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	171
Anti Social Behaviour	160
Shoplifting	51
Criminal Damage Arson	46
Public Order	41
Other Theft	21
Vehicle Crime	17
Other Crime	14
Bicycle Theft	13
Burglary	12
Drugs	11
Possession Of Weapons	6
Robbery	6
Theft From The Person	5
All Crime	574

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 Gorse Hill. 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 Gorse Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gorse Hill	574
Lower Stratton (1.39 miles)	293
Pinehurst (0.62 miles)	248
Penhill (1.24 miles)	214
Greenmeadow (0.88 miles)	209
Nythe (1.96 miles)	197
Even Swindon (1.39 miles)	189
Lawn (1.96 miles)	187
Stratton St Margaret (1.39 miles)	137
Moredon (1.39 miles)	126

Where are the most violent places near Gorse Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gorse Hill	171
Pinehurst	95
Lower Stratton	94
Lawn	91
Greenmeadow	88
Nythe	82
Penhill	80
Moredon	55
Stratton St Margaret	45
Even Swindon	39

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

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 Gorse Hill 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 Gorse Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gorse Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Gorse Hill is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Walcot and Park North	88
2	Central	85
3	Gorse Hill and Pinehurst	82
4	Eastcott	82
5	Penhill and Upper Stratton	70
6	Rodbourne Cheney	67
7	Mannington and Western	60
8	Old Town	59
9	Chiseldon and Lawn	55
10	St Margaret and South Marston	50
11	Haydon Wick	47

Which road in Gorse Hill has the highest level of crime?

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