Crime Statistics for Peckingell, Chippenham, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Peckingell in October 2024. There were a total of 103 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 Peckingell, 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	39
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Shoplifting	11
Public Order	8
Other Theft	5
Drugs	3
Robbery	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	103

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 Peckingell. 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 Peckingell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chippenham (1.39 miles)	132
Peckingell	87
Allington Bar (2.48 miles)	42
Langley Burrell (0.62 miles)	40
Low Bridge (3.16 miles)	9
Christian Malford (3.1 miles)	6
Tytherton Lucas (0.62 miles)	3
Foxham (3.1 miles)	3
Bowldown (1.96 miles)	2
Draycot Cerne (2.56 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Peckingell?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Peckingell 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
Langley Burrell	15
Low Bridge	2
Christian Malford	2
Tytherton Lucas	2
Foxham	0
Bowldown	0
Draycot Cerne	0

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

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 Peckingell 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 Peckingell compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chippenham Lowden and Rowden	47
2	Calne Chilvester and Abberd	42
3	Chippenham Monkton	34
4	Chippenham Hardenhuish	30
5	Chippenham Hardens and England	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 Peckingell has the highest level of crime?

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