Crime Statistics for Caddington, Aley Green, Bedfordshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Caddington, Aley Green

There were a total of 9 street level crime incidents in Caddington in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Caddington, 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 Crime2
Vehicle Crime2
Anti Social Behaviour2
Public Order1
Shoplifting1
Burglary1
All Crime9

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Caddington. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Caddington

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Biscot (2.24 miles)832
Bury Park (1.75 miles)794
Park Street (1.96 miles)567
Farley Hill (0.88 miles)62
Chaul End (1.39 miles)43
Downside (1.96 miles)40
Markyate (1.86 miles)21
Aley Green (0.62 miles)19
Caddington9
Kensworth (2.55 miles)7

9.08%
of Caddington residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Caddington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Biscot289
Bury Park280
Park Street183
Farley Hill23
Downside13
Chaul End12
Aley Green9
Markyate7
Caddington2
Kensworth1

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

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 Caddington 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 Caddington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Dunstable-Manshead86
2South83
3Crawley79
4Farley79
5High Town75
6Challney74
7Biscot65
8Dunstable-Icknield62
9Dallow62
10Saints53
11Caddington47

Which road in Caddington has the highest level of crime?

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

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