Crime Statistics for Crown Hills, Leicester, City of Leicester, 2024

Crime statistics for Crown Hills, Leicester

There were a total of 267 street level crime incidents in Crown Hills in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Crown Hills, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime108
Shoplifting38
Anti Social Behaviour21
Public Order18
Other Theft17
Criminal Damage Arson16
Vehicle Crime13
Burglary13
Drugs11
Other Crime7
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery2
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime267

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 Crown Hills. 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 Crown Hills

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Spinney Hills (1.24 miles)1021
Highfields (1.24 miles)1021
Belgrave (2.24 miles)886
Nether Hall (1.39 miles)321
Stoneygate (1.75 miles)279
Crown Hills267
Evington (0.62 miles)169
Thurnby (1.24 miles)147
Bushby (1.86 miles)60
Stoughton (1.75 miles)23

42.58%
of Evington residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Crown Hills?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Spinney Hills365
Highfields365
Belgrave304
Nether Hall135
Crown Hills108
Stoneygate91
Thurnby67
Evington56
Bushby25
Stoughton15

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

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 Crown Hills 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 Crown Hills compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Crown Hills and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Crown Hills is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Knighton59
2Humberstone & Hamilton56
3Evington55
4North Evington55
5Thurncourt55
6Stoneygate52
7Wycliffe47
8Belgrave40
9Thurnby & Houghton36
10Spinney Hills32
11Oadby Grange17

Which road in Crown Hills has the highest level of crime?

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