Crime Statistics for Hook Street, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hook Street in September 2024. There were a total of 23 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hook Street, 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	7
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Public Order	2
Other Crime	2
Other Theft	1
Burglary	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	23

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 Hook Street. 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 Hook Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shaw (1.96 miles)	113
Coped Hall (0.88 miles)	78
Common Platt (1.75 miles)	65
Hook (0.62 miles)	64
Freshbrook (1.96 miles)	62
Ballard’s Ash (1.24 miles)	24
Hook Street	23
Greatfield (0.88 miles)	4
Restrop (1.24 miles)	1
Green Hill (1.76 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Hook Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shaw	52
Coped Hall	27
Freshbrook	21
Common Platt	20
Hook	17
Hook Street	7
Ballard’s Ash	6
Greatfield	3
Restrop	1
Green Hill	0

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

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 Hook Street 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 Hook Street compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Central	85
2	Mannington and Western	60
3	Lydiard and Freshbrook	49
4	Haydon Wick	47
5	Shaw	42
6	Priory Vale	41
7	Purton	34
8	Royal Wootton Bassett South	30
9	Wroughton and Wichelstowe	29
10	Royal Wootton Bassett North	24
11	Royal Wootton Bassett East	14

Which road in Hook Street has the highest level of crime?

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