Crime Statistics for Harrowden, Elstow, Bedfordshire, 2025

Is Harrowden rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 86 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 Harrowden, 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 Crime21
Shoplifting14
Burglary12
Anti Social Behaviour8
Other Theft7
Criminal Damage Arson7
Vehicle Crime6
Other Crime4
Public Order4
Drugs3
All Crime86

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Castle (1.58 miles)852
South End (1.39 miles)606
Bedford (1.39 miles)536
Kempston (1.96 miles)392
Fenlake (0.62 miles)236
Harrowden86
Cardington (1.24 miles)39
Shortstown (0.88 miles)34
Littleworth (1.96 miles)24
Herring’s Green (2.24 miles)18

31.77%
of Kingsbrook residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Harrowden?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Castle339
Bedford254
South End222
Kempston144
Fenlake59
Littleworth28
Harrowden21
Cardington8
Herring’s Green8
Shortstown6

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

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 Harrowden 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 Harrowden compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harrowden and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harrowden is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Castle73
2Cauldwell69
3Harpur66
4Kingsbrook64
5Queens Park63
6Eastcotts60
7Kempston North58
8Kempston Central and East52
9Elstow and Stewartby48
10Kempston South40
11Wilshamstead20

Which road in Harrowden has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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