Crime Statistics for Evington, Oadby and Wigston, City of Leicester, 2024

Crime statistics for Evington, Oadby and Wigston

There were a total of 169 street level crime incidents in Evington 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 Evington, 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 Crime56
Shoplifting37
Burglary11
Vehicle Crime11
Other Theft11
Anti Social Behaviour10
Criminal Damage Arson9
Public Order8
Drugs7
Bicycle Theft5
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime169

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 Evington. 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 Evington

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Spinney Hills (1.39 miles)1021
Highfields (1.39 miles)1021
Stoneygate (1.39 miles)279
Crown Hills (0.62 miles)267
South Knighton (1.76 miles)224
Evington169
Thurnby (1.39 miles)147
Oadby (1.86 miles)118
Bushby (1.96 miles)60
Stoughton (1.39 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 Evington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Spinney Hills365
Highfields365
Crown Hills108
South Knighton93
Stoneygate91
Thurnby67
Evington56
Oadby43
Bushby25
Stoughton15

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

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 Evington 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 Evington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Knighton59
2Evington55
3North Evington55
4Thurncourt55
5Stoneygate52
6Oadby St Peter's48
7Wycliffe47
8Thurnby & Houghton36
9Spinney Hills32
10Oadby Grange17
11Oadby Uplands16

Which road in Evington has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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