Crime Statistics for Great Ouse, Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, 2024

There were a total of 115 street level crime incidents in Great Ouse in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Great Ouse, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	51
Other Theft	13
Vehicle Crime	8
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Shoplifting	7
Burglary	7
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Public Order	4
Theft From The Person	3
Robbery	2
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	115

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Bradwell (0.86 miles)	226
Heelands (2.16 miles)	179
Greenley (1.17 miles)	158
Great Ouse	115
Two Mile Ash (2.3 miles)	84
Stony Stratford (1.54 miles)	76
Calverton (2.01 miles)	51
Cosgrove (1.13 miles)	33
Passenham (2.41 miles)	10
Castlethorpe (1.81 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Great Ouse?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Bradwell	108
Greenley	80
Heelands	74
Great Ouse	51
Two Mile Ash	29
Stony Stratford	28
Calverton	21
Cosgrove	11
Passenham	4
Castlethorpe	1

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

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 Great Ouse 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 Great Ouse compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Great Ouse and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Great Ouse is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central Milton Keynes	67
2	Wolverton	63
3	Campbell Park & Old Woughton	50
4	Stantonbury	46
5	Stony Stratford	45
6	Bradwell	41
7	Cosgrove and Grafton	35
8	Whittlewood	32
9	Old Stratford	31
10	Newport Pagnell South	28
11	Newport Pagnell North & Hanslope	24

Which road in Great Ouse has the highest level of crime?

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