Crime Statistics for Moredon, Swindon, Swindon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Moredon in October 2024. There were a total of 139 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 Moredon, 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	55
Anti Social Behaviour	33
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Public Order	10
Shoplifting	7
Other Theft	7
Other Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Burglary	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	139

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 Moredon. 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 Moredon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gorse Hill (1.39 miles)	768
Pinehurst (1.24 miles)	493
Greenmeadow (0.62 miles)	318
Penhill (1.39 miles)	208
Blunsdon St Andrew (1.24 miles)	171
Even Swindon (1.24 miles)	165
Moredon	139
Shaw (1.76 miles)	95
Roughmoor (1.39 miles)	59
The Fox (1.86 miles)	27

Where are the most violent places near Moredon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gorse Hill	299
Pinehurst	193
Greenmeadow	174
Penhill	77
Blunsdon St Andrew	58
Even Swindon	57
Moredon	55
Shaw	42
Roughmoor	31
The Fox	7

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

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 Moredon 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 Moredon compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Moredon and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Moredon is ranked #8.

#	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	Haydon Wick	47
9	St Andrews	45
10	Shaw	42
11	Priory Vale	41

Which road in Moredon has the highest level of crime?

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