Crime Statistics for Hankerton, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hankerton in October 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	2

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 Hankerton. 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 Hankerton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Filands (2.77 miles)	30
Milbourne (2.63 miles)	22
Lea (2.78 miles)	2
Hankerton	2
Chedglow (2.63 miles)	1
Bullock’s Horn	1
Crudwell (1.75 miles)	1
Oaksey (2.24 miles)	1
Garsdon (1.96 miles)	1
Chelworth (2.48 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Hankerton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Filands	14
Milbourne	6
Lea	2
Hankerton	1
Garsdon	1
Chedglow	0
Bullock’s Horn	0
Crudwell	0
Oaksey	0
Chelworth	0

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

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 Hankerton 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 Hankerton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hankerton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hankerton is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Purton	34
2	Royal Wootton Bassett South	30
3	Malmesbury	18
4	Royal Wootton Bassett East	14
5	Brinkworth	14
6	Minety	13
7	Tetbury East & Rural	6
8	Tetbury Town	6

Which road in Hankerton has the highest level of crime?

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