Crime Statistics for Britford, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Britford in September 2024. There were a total of 50 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	18
Violent Crime	10
Vehicle Crime	6
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Other Theft	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	50

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 Britford. 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 Britford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Salisbury (1.76 miles)	264
Laverstock (1.39 miles)	245
Milford (0.88 miles)	201
Britford	51
Harnham (1.86 miles)	15
Alderbury (1.76 miles)	14
Nunton (1.39 miles)	9
Odstock (1.76 miles)	9
Bodenham (1.24 miles)	8
Shute End (0.62 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Britford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Salisbury	80
Laverstock	72
Milford	56
Britford	10
Harnham	6
Bodenham	4
Shute End	3
Nunton	2
Odstock	2
Alderbury	0

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

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 Britford 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 Britford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Britford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Britford is ranked #4.

#	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	Winterslow	28
10	Salisbury St Mark's and Bishopdown	27
11	Fovant and Chalke Valley	26

Which road in Britford has the highest level of crime?

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