Crime Statistics for Ely, Cambridgeshire, 2025

Is Ely rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for February 2025. There were a total of 173 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ely, 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	45
Public Order	23
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Shoplifting	20
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Theft	11
Other Crime	8
Burglary	6
Drugs	6
Bicycle Theft	6
Robbery	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	173

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2025

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	157
Littleport (3.93 miles)	125
Sandhill (4.16 miles)	110
Chettisham (1.86 miles)	14
Black Bank (3.17 miles)	7
California (2.56 miles)	7
Little Downham (2.24 miles)	6
Broad Hill (3.97 miles)	3
Little Thetford (2.56 miles)	3
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	55
Sandhill	47
Ely	45
California	7
Black Bank	4
Chettisham	3
Little Downham	3
Broad Hill	0
Little Thetford	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 this marker.