Crime Statistics for Stoneygate, Leicester, City of Leicester, 2024

There were a total of 248 street level crime incidents in Stoneygate in February 2024. 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 Stoneygate, 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	96
Public Order	25
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Other Theft	17
Shoplifting	13
Vehicle Crime	12
Drugs	12
Burglary	12
Robbery	5
Theft From The Person	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	248

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 Stoneygate. 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 Stoneygate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Spinney Hills (1.24 miles)	997
Highfields (1.24 miles)	997
Aylestone Park (1.39 miles)	347
Clarendon Park (0.62 miles)	344
Knighton (0.88 miles)	321
Knighton Fields (0.88 miles)	321
Stoneygate	248
South Knighton (0.62 miles)	182
Evington (1.39 miles)	144
Oadby (1.75 miles)	99

Where are the most violent places near Stoneygate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Spinney Hills	341
Highfields	341
Aylestone Park	145
Knighton	132
Knighton Fields	132
Clarendon Park	131
Stoneygate	96
South Knighton	81
Evington	55
Oadby	41

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

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 Stoneygate 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 Stoneygate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stoneygate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Stoneygate is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Westcotes	90
2	Eyres Monsell	88
3	Aylestone	85
4	Saffron	80
5	Castle	77
6	Knighton	59
7	Stoneygate	52
8	Oadby St Peter's	48
9	Wycliffe	47
10	Spinney Hills	32
11	Oadby Grange	17

Which road in Stoneygate has the highest level of crime?

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