Crime Statistics for Horpit, Wanborough, Swindon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Horpit in October 2024. There were a total of 6 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Violent Crime	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	6

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Horpit. 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 Horpit

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Park (2.56 miles)	202
Nythe (1.96 miles)	192
Dorcan (1.24 miles)	80
Coate (2.24 miles)	56
Wanborough (1.39 miles)	33
Lower Wanborough (0.62 miles)	6
Horpit	6
Bourton (2.24 miles)	1
Idstone (2.48 miles)	1
Bishopstone (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Horpit?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Park	81
Nythe	77
Dorcan	31
Coate	20
Wanborough	10
Lower Wanborough	1
Horpit	1
Bourton	1
Idstone	1
Bishopstone	0

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

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 Horpit 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 Horpit compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Walcot and Park North	88
2	Gorse Hill and Pinehurst	82
3	Eastcott	82
4	Penhill and Upper Stratton	70
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 Horpit has the highest level of crime?

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