Crime Statistics for Herring’s Green, Cotton End, Bedfordshire, 2024

There were a total of 11 street level crime incidents in Herring’s Green in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	4
Violent Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Public Order	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	11

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Herring’s Green. 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 Herring’s Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South End (3.51 miles)	298
Fenlake (2.78 miles)	233
Harrowden (2.24 miles)	89
Cardington (1.86 miles)	64
Shortstown (1.39 miles)	40
Kempston Hardwick (3.1 miles)	15
Cople (2.78 miles)	14
Littleworth (0.62 miles)	14
Herring’s Green	11
Warden Street (2.48 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Herring’s Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South End	96
Fenlake	71
Harrowden	32
Cardington	18
Shortstown	11
Kempston Hardwick	6
Cople	6
Littleworth	6
Herring’s Green	3
Warden Street	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Herring’s Green?

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 Herring’s Green 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 Herring’s Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Cauldwell	69
2	Kingsbrook	64
3	Eastcotts	60
4	Kempston North	58
5	Kempston West	55
6	Newnham	52
7	Kempston Central and East	52
8	Elstow and Stewartby	48
9	Houghton Conquest and Haynes	41
10	Kempston South	40
11	Wilshamstead	20

Which road in Herring’s Green has the highest level of crime?

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