Crime Statistics for Bemerton Heath, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bemerton Heath in September 2024. There were a total of 81 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 Bemerton Heath, 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	30
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	5
Bicycle Theft	5
Other Crime	4
Other Theft	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Shoplifting	2
Burglary	1
Drugs	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	81

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 Bemerton Heath. 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 Bemerton Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Salisbury (1.39 miles)	264
Bishopdown (1.86 miles)	259
Laverstock (1.96 miles)	245
Stratford Sub Castle (0.88 miles)	94
Bemerton Heath	81
Churchfields (1.39 miles)	73
Bemerton (0.62 miles)	60
Harnham (1.96 miles)	15
Fugglestone St Peter (1.24 miles)	15
Netherhampton (1.76 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Bemerton Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Salisbury	80
Bishopdown	80
Laverstock	72
Stratford Sub Castle	40
Bemerton Heath	30
Bemerton	21
Churchfields	20
Harnham	6
Fugglestone St Peter	5
Netherhampton	0

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

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 Bemerton Heath 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 Bemerton Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bemerton Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bemerton Heath is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Salisbury St Edmund and Milford	69
2	Salisbury Bemerton	67
3	Salisbury St Martin's and Cathedral	55
4	Wilton and Lower Wylye Valley	44
5	Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village	39
6	Salisbury St Paul's	38
7	Nadder and East Knoyle	33
8	Salisbury St Francis and Stratford	32
9	Salisbury St Mark's and Bishopdown	27
10	Fovant and Chalke Valley	26
11	Bourne and Woodford Valley	24

Which road in Bemerton Heath has the highest level of crime?

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