Crime Statistics for Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Alton Barnes in September 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Violent Crime1
All Crime3

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Alton Priors (0.62 miles)6
Beechingstoke (2.24 miles)3
Alton Barnes3
Patney (3.1 miles)1
Kennet and Avon Canal (0.61 miles)0
Broad Street (1.86 miles)0
Manningford Bruce (3.1 miles)0
Sharcott (3.1 miles)0
Bottlesford (1.96 miles)0
Honeystreet (0.62 miles)0

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Alton Barnes?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Alton Priors4
Beechingstoke1
Alton Barnes1
Patney0
Kennet and Avon Canal0
Broad Street0
Manningford Bruce0
Sharcott0
Bottlesford0
Honeystreet0

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

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 Alton Barnes 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 Alton Barnes compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Devizes North39
2Pewsey37
3Marlborough East28
4Devizes East27
5Devizes and Roundway South26
6The Collingbournes and Netheravon26
7Marlborough West22
8Pewsey Vale20
9Roundway15
10Bromham, Rowde and Potterne13
11Urchfont and The Cannings9

Which road in Alton Barnes has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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