Crime Statistics for Ely, Cambridgeshire, 2024

There were a total of 96 street level crime incidents in Ely in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Violent Crime	19
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Shoplifting	10
Other Theft	9
Burglary	6
Public Order	5
Drugs	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	96

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 Ely. 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 Ely

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ely	96
Littleport (3.93 miles)	42
Sandhill (4.16 miles)	37
Chettisham (1.86 miles)	10
Black Bank (3.17 miles)	7
Broad Hill (3.97 miles)	7
California (2.56 miles)	7
Little Downham (2.24 miles)	6
Little Thetford (2.56 miles)	2
Barway (3.11 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Ely?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Littleport	20
Ely	19
Sandhill	16
Broad Hill	4
Chettisham	2
Black Bank	1
California	1
Little Thetford	1
Little Downham	0
Barway	0

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

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 Ely 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 Ely compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ely and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Ely is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	The Rows	32
2	Littleport	30
3	Soham South	27
4	Ely East	25
5	Soham North	23
6	Ely North	23
7	Stretham	23
8	Ely West	21
9	Haddenham	19
10	Sutton	15
11	Fordham & Isleham	7

Which road in Ely has the highest level of crime?

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