Crime Statistics for Potsgrove, Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Potsgrove, Heath and Reach

There were a total of 3 street level crime incidents in Potsgrove in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Burglary.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft2
Burglary1
All Crime3

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 Potsgrove. 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 Potsgrove

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Heath and Reach (2.24 miles)30
Eggington (2.48 miles)24
Rushmere (2.77 miles)16
Hockliffe (2.24 miles)11
Birchmoor Green (2.56 miles)7
Tebworth (3.1 miles)5
Fox Corner (1.86 miles)5
Potsgrove3
Sheeplane (1.39 miles)2
Battlesden (0.88 miles)0

9.5%
of Aspley and Woburn residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Potsgrove?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Eggington12
Heath and Reach9
Rushmere3
Hockliffe3
Fox Corner3
Tebworth2
Birchmoor Green1
Potsgrove0
Sheeplane0
Battlesden0

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

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 Potsgrove 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 Potsgrove compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Tithe Farm75
2Heath and Reach74
3Leighton Buzzard North54
4Eaton Bray51
5Leighton Buzzard South45
6Danesborough & Walton34
7Wing29
8Linslade27
9Westoning, Flitton and Greenfield27
10Great Brickhill & Newton Longville23
11Aspley and Woburn21

Which road in Potsgrove has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Potsgrove 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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