Crime Statistics for The Fox, Church End, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for The Fox in August 2024. There were a total of 27 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 The Fox, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime16
Shoplifting5
Anti Social Behaviour3
Burglary1
Other Theft1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime27

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 The Fox. 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 The Fox

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blunsdon St Andrew (2.24 miles)255
Even Swindon (2.24 miles)189
Moredon (1.86 miles)126
Shaw (1.39 miles)106
Roughmoor (0.88 miles)95
Common Platt (0.62 miles)37
The Fox27
Hook Street (2.24 miles)19
Greatfield (2.24 miles)8
Restrop (1.39 miles)8

15.26%
of Shaw (Swindon) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near The Fox?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Blunsdon St Andrew90
Moredon55
Roughmoor44
Even Swindon39
Shaw33
Common Platt18
The Fox16
Hook Street10
Greatfield5
Restrop4

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

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 The Fox 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 The Fox compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to The Fox and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.The Fox is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Central85
2Gorse Hill and Pinehurst82
3Rodbourne Cheney67
4Mannington and Western60
5Lydiard and Freshbrook49
6Haydon Wick47
7St Andrews45
8Shaw42
9Priory Vale41
10Wroughton and Wichelstowe29
11Royal Wootton Bassett North24

Which road in The Fox has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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