Crime Statistics for Apsley End, Shillington, Central Bedfordshire, 2024

There were a total of 2 street level crime incidents in Apsley End in March 2024. 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	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	2

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barton-le-Clay (2.55 miles)	11
Shillington (1.24 miles)	3
Holwell (2.55 miles)	3
Apsley End	2
Lower Gravenhurst (1.96 miles)	2
Upper Gravenhurst (2.56 miles)	1
Higham Gobion (1.24 miles)	1
Pirton (1.39 miles)	1
Burge End (1.24 miles)	1
Hanscombe End (0.88 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Apsley End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shillington	3
Barton-le-Clay	2
Lower Gravenhurst	2
Holwell	1
Apsley End	1
Upper Gravenhurst	1
Higham Gobion	0
Pirton	0
Burge End	0
Hanscombe End	0

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

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 Apsley End 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 Apsley End compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Apsley End and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Apsley End have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Hitchin Oughton.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hitchin Oughton	64
2	Icknield	51
3	Toddington	48
4	Cadwell	40
5	Hitchin Bearton	39
6	Hitchin Priory	34
7	Shefford	33
8	Hitchin Highbury	29
9	Bramingham	28
10	Barton-le-Clay	20
11	Silsoe and Shillington	17

Which road in Apsley End has the highest level of crime?

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