Crime Statistics for Fovant, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fovant in October 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Burglary.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Burglary	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	3

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 Fovant. 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 Fovant

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fovant	3
Compton Chamberlayne	2
Baverstock (1.76 miles)	2
Upper Chicksgrove (2.48 miles)	1
Teffont Evias (1.76 miles)	0
Teffont Magna (2.24 miles)	0
Knapp (2.78 miles)	0
Chilmark (3.1 miles)	0
Fifield Bavant (2.56 miles)	0
Mooray (2.63 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Fovant?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Compton Chamberlayne	2
Fovant	1
Baverstock	1
Upper Chicksgrove	0
Teffont Evias	0
Teffont Magna	0
Knapp	0
Chilmark	0
Fifield Bavant	0
Mooray	0

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

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 Fovant 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 Fovant compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	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	Tisbury	27
9	Fovant and Chalke Valley	26
10	Bourne and Woodford Valley	24
11	Till and Wylye Valley	23

Which road in Fovant has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Fovant with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around B3081.