Crime Statistics for Alton Priors, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Alton Priors in September 2024. There were a total of 10 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	4
Anti Social Behaviour	2
All Crime	10

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 Priors. 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 Priors

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alton Priors	6
Beechingstoke (2.63 miles)	3
Alton Barnes (0.62 miles)	3
Kennet and Avon Canal (1.14 miles)	0
Broad Street (1.96 miles)	0
North Newnton (3.17 miles)	0
Manningford Bruce (2.78 miles)	0
Sharcott (2.63 miles)	0
Bottlesford (1.86 miles)	0
Honeystreet (0.88 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Alton Priors?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alton Priors	4
Beechingstoke	1
Alton Barnes	1
Kennet and Avon Canal	0
Broad Street	0
North Newnton	0
Manningford Bruce	0
Sharcott	0
Bottlesford	0
Honeystreet	0

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

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 Priors 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 Priors compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Devizes North	39
2	Pewsey	37
3	Marlborough East	28
4	Devizes East	27
5	Devizes and Roundway South	26
6	The Collingbournes and Netheravon	26
7	Marlborough West	22
8	Pewsey Vale	20
9	Roundway	15
10	Bromham, Rowde and Potterne	13
11	Urchfont and The Cannings	9

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

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