Crime Statistics for Kempston West End, Kempston Rural, Bedfordshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Kempston West End, Kempston Rural

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime1

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 Kempston West End. 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 Kempston West End

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Kempston (2.56 miles)211
Kempston Church End (1.24 miles)50
Great Ouse (2.35 miles)31
Keeley Green (0.88 miles)14
Hall End (1.39 miles)14
Gibraltar (0.88 miles)14
Bridge End (1.96 miles)6
Box End (0.88 miles)3
Stagsden (1.39 miles)1
Kempston West End1

10.12%
of Wootton (Bedford) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Kempston West End?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Kempston81
Kempston Church End24
Great Ouse13
Keeley Green7
Hall End7
Gibraltar7
Bridge End1
Box End0
Stagsden0
Kempston West End0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Kempston West 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 Kempston West 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 Kempston West End compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Castle73
2Cauldwell69
3Queens Park63
4Kempston North58
5Kempston West55
6Kempston Central and East52
7Elstow and Stewartby48
8Kempston South40
9Kempston Rural29
10Wootton21
11Bromham and Biddenham18

Which road in Kempston West End has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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