Crime Statistics for Longfield, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Longfield in August 2024. There were a total of 243 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	73
Violent Crime	63
Shoplifting	30
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Public Order	23
Drugs	9
Other Theft	6
Burglary	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	243

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Biss (0.55 miles)	291
Lower Studley	243
Longfield	243
Drynham (0.88 miles)	179
Dursley (1.96 miles)	16
Southwick (1.75 miles)	12
Ireland (1.96 miles)	12
Pole’s Hole (1.96 miles)	12
Hoopers Pool (2.24 miles)	6
Hoggington (2.24 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Longfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Biss	86
Lower Studley	63
Longfield	63
Drynham	49
Dursley	11
Ireland	7
Pole’s Hole	7
Southwick	6
Hoopers Pool	3
Hoggington	3

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

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 Longfield 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 Longfield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Longfield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Longfield is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Trowbridge Central	73
2	Trowbridge Park	68
3	Trowbridge Adcroft	63
4	Trowbridge Drynham	55
5	Trowbridge Grove	49
6	Trowbridge Lambrok	47
7	Trowbridge Paxcroft	45
8	Bradford-on-Avon South	37
9	Hilperton	32
10	Winsley and Westwood	23
11	Bradford-on-Avon North	22

Which road in Longfield has the highest level of crime?

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