Crime Statistics for Salisbury, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Salisbury in October 2024. There were a total of 579 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 Salisbury, 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	152
Anti Social Behaviour	150
Public Order	59
Shoplifting	56
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Other Theft	28
Burglary	26
Bicycle Theft	24
Other Crime	14
Vehicle Crime	14
Drugs	8
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	579

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 Salisbury. 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 Salisbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Salisbury	565
Milford (0.88 miles)	347
Bishopdown (0.88 miles)	274
Laverstock (0.62 miles)	265
Stratford Sub Castle (1.39 miles)	238
Bemerton Heath (1.39 miles)	99
Churchfields (0.88 miles)	91
Bemerton (1.24 miles)	84
Britford (1.76 miles)	33
Harnham (1.39 miles)	18

Where are the most violent places near Salisbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stratford Sub Castle	171
Salisbury	152
Milford	106
Bishopdown	78
Laverstock	72
Bemerton Heath	39
Bemerton	31
Churchfields	28
Britford	12
Harnham	6

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

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 Salisbury 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 Salisbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Salisbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Salisbury have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Bourne and Woodford Valley.

#	Ward	Score
1	Salisbury St Edmund and Milford	69
2	Salisbury Bemerton	67
3	Salisbury St Martin's and Cathedral	55
4	Salisbury Harnham	42
5	Salisbury Fisherton and Bemerton Village	39
6	Laverstock, Ford and Old Sarum	39
7	Salisbury St Paul's	38
8	Salisbury St Francis and Stratford	32
9	Salisbury St Mark's and Bishopdown	27
10	Fovant and Chalke Valley	26
11	Bourne and Woodford Valley	24

Which road in Salisbury has the highest level of crime?

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