Crime Statistics for Lawn, North Wroughton, Swindon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lawn in August 2024. There were a total of 221 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 Lawn, 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	91
Anti Social Behaviour	60
Public Order	26
Burglary	8
Other Theft	8
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Other Crime	5
Robbery	4
Shoplifting	3
Drugs	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	221

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 Lawn. 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 Lawn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gorse Hill (1.96 miles)	574
Lower Stratton (1.39 miles)	293
Nythe (1.75 miles)	197
Lawn	187
Dorcan (1.96 miles)	185
Park (0.62 miles)	162
Okus (1.24 miles)	97
Coate (1.39 miles)	51
North Wroughton (1.76 miles)	27
Badbury Wick (1.76 miles)	17

Where are the most violent places near Lawn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gorse Hill	171
Dorcan	148
Lower Stratton	94
Lawn	91
Nythe	82
Park	66
Okus	54
Coate	19
North Wroughton	13
Badbury Wick	6

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

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 Lawn 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 Lawn compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	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	Mannington and Western	60
8	Old Town	59
9	Chiseldon and Lawn	55
10	St Margaret and South Marston	50
11	Covingham and Dorcan	45

Which road in Lawn has the highest level of crime?

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