Crime Statistics for Chippenham, Patterdown, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chippenham in October 2024. There were a total of 143 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 Chippenham, 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	52
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Shoplifting	14
Public Order	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Other Theft	8
Drugs	7
Burglary	3
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	143

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chippenham	132
Peckingell (1.39 miles)	87
Cross Keys (2.77 miles)	47
Allington Bar (1.39 miles)	42
Langley Burrell (1.75 miles)	40
Tytherton Lucas (1.96 miles)	3
Notton (2.49 miles)	2
Bowldown (2.56 miles)	2
Reybridge (2.49 miles)	2
Biddestone (3.1 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Chippenham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chippenham	52
Peckingell	39
Allington Bar	32
Cross Keys	17
Langley Burrell	15
Tytherton Lucas	2
Biddestone	1
Notton	0
Bowldown	0
Reybridge	0

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

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 Chippenham 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 Chippenham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chippenham Lowden and Rowden	47
2	Chippenham Monkton	34
3	Chippenham Hardenhuish	30
4	Chippenham Hardens and England	24
5	Corsham Pickwick	24
6	Chippenham Cepen Park and Redlands	23
7	Corsham Town	20
8	Chippenham Queens and Sheldon	17
9	Kington	14
10	Chippenham Cepen Park and Derriads	9
11	Chippenham Pewsham	4

Which road in Chippenham has the highest level of crime?

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