Crime Statistics for Ratford, Swerves Farm, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ratford in October 2024. There were a total of 35 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ratford, 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	20
Shoplifting	7
Other Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	35

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 Ratford. 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 Ratford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Calne Marsh (1.39 miles)	96
Calne (0.88 miles)	79
Ratford	34
Low Bridge (0.62 miles)	9
Mile Elm (1.96 miles)	6
Tytherton Lucas (2.77 miles)	3
Foxham (3.17 miles)	3
Compton Bassett (3.1 miles)	2
Broad’s Green (3.11 miles)	2
Buck Hill (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Ratford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Calne Marsh	53
Calne	48
Ratford	20
Mile Elm	4
Low Bridge	2
Tytherton Lucas	2
Compton Bassett	1
Broad’s Green	1
Buck Hill	1
Foxham	0

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

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 Ratford 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 Ratford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chippenham Lowden and Rowden	47
2	Calne Central	45
3	Calne Chilvester and Abberd	42
4	Chippenham Monkton	34
5	Chippenham Hardenhuish	30
6	Calne North	30
7	Calne South and Cherhill	28
8	Chippenham Hardens and England	24
9	Calne Rural	19
10	Chippenham Queens and Sheldon	17
11	Chippenham Pewsham	4

Which road in Ratford has the highest level of crime?

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