Crime Statistics for Bishopdown, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 2025

Is Bishopdown rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 291 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 Bishopdown, 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	95
Anti Social Behaviour	56
Shoplifting	48
Public Order	33
Other Theft	20
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Other Crime	9
Drugs	4
Burglary	4
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	291

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Laverstock (0.62 miles)	356
Bishopdown	280
Milford (1.24 miles)	258
Salisbury (0.88 miles)	203
Bemerton Heath (1.86 miles)	113
Stratford Sub Castle (1.39 miles)	104
Bemerton (1.96 miles)	65
Churchfields (1.75 miles)	62
Britford (1.96 miles)	36
Shute End (2.24 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Bishopdown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Laverstock	113
Bishopdown	95
Milford	95
Salisbury	74
Stratford Sub Castle	65
Bemerton Heath	50
Bemerton	35
Churchfields	15
Britford	15
Shute End	4

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

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 Bishopdown 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 Bishopdown compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bishopdown and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bishopdown is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Salisbury St Edmund and Milford	69
2	Salisbury Bemerton	67
3	Salisbury St Martin's and Cathedral	55
4	Salisbury Harnham	42
5	Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village	39
6	Laverstock, Ford and Old Sarum	39
7	Salisbury St Paul's	38
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 Bishopdown has the highest level of crime?

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