Crime Statistics for Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stratton St Margaret in August 2024. There were a total of 137 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 Stratton St Margaret, 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	45
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Public Order	13
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Vehicle Crime	12
Shoplifting	10
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	2
Burglary	2
Robbery	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	137

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 Stratton St Margaret. 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 Stratton St Margaret

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gorse Hill (1.39 miles)	574
Lower Stratton (1.24 miles)	293
Pinehurst (1.24 miles)	248
Penhill (1.39 miles)	214
Greenmeadow (1.86 miles)	209
Nythe (1.39 miles)	197
Stratton St Margaret	137
Broad Blunsdon (2.24 miles)	94
Broadbush (2.24 miles)	94
South Marston (1.39 miles)	28

Where are the most violent places near Stratton St Margaret?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Stratton St Margaret 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
Greenmeadow	88
Nythe	82
Penhill	80
Stratton St Margaret	45
Broad Blunsdon	32
Broadbush	32
South Marston	2

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Stratton St Margaret?

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 Stratton St Margaret 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 Stratton St Margaret compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stratton St Margaret and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Stratton St Margaret have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Walcot and Park North.

#	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	Liden, Eldene and Park South	69
7	Rodbourne Cheney	67
8	Mannington and Western	60
9	Old Town	59
10	Chiseldon and Lawn	55
11	St Margaret and South Marston	50

Which road in Stratton St Margaret has the highest level of crime?

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