Crime Statistics for Ballard’s Ash, Green Hill, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ballard’s Ash in September 2024. There were a total of 24 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour8
Violent Crime6
Criminal Damage Arson4
Other Theft1
Burglary1
Other Crime1
Public Order1
Bicycle Theft1
Shoplifting1
All Crime24

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 Ballard’s Ash. 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 Ballard’s Ash

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Coped Hall (0.88 miles)78
Common Platt (2.77 miles)65
Hook (0.62 miles)64
The Fox (3.1 miles)35
Ballard’s Ash24
Hook Street (1.24 miles)23
Greatfield (0.88 miles)4
Restrop (1.76 miles)1
Green Hill (1.24 miles)1
Callow Hill (1.86 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 Ballard’s Ash?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Coped Hall27
Common Platt20
Hook17
The Fox10
Hook Street7
Ballard’s Ash6
Greatfield3
Restrop1
Green Hill0
Callow Hill0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Ballard’s Ash?

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 Ballard’s Ash 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 Ballard’s Ash compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Lydiard and Freshbrook49
2Haydon Wick47
3Shaw42
4Priory Vale41
5Purton34
6Royal Wootton Bassett South30
7Wroughton and Wichelstowe29
8Royal Wootton Bassett North24
9Royal Wootton Bassett East14
10Brinkworth14
11Lyneham5

Which road in Ballard’s Ash has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Ballard’s Ash 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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