Crime Statistics for Spon End, Coventry, Coventry, 2024

There were a total of 673 street level crime incidents in Spon End in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Spon End, 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	232
Vehicle Crime	57
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Other Theft	54
Anti Social Behaviour	52
Shoplifting	50
Public Order	44
Drugs	34
Burglary	28
Robbery	22
Theft From The Person	13
Bicycle Theft	13
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	9
All Crime	673

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 Spon End. 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 Spon End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Great Heath (1.39 miles)	938
Sowe (1.33 miles)	755
Gosford Green (1.39 miles)	720
Spon End	673
Radford (0.62 miles)	578
Edgwick (1.75 miles)	560
Chapel Fields (0.62 miles)	331
Cheylesmore (1.39 miles)	212
Canley (1.75 miles)	205
Earlsdon (1.39 miles)	175

Where are the most violent places near Spon End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Great Heath	359
Sowe	274
Gosford Green	264
Spon End	232
Edgwick	216
Radford	207
Chapel Fields	100
Cheylesmore	74
Canley	45
Earlsdon	44

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

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 Spon End 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 Spon End compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Radford	71
2	St Michael's	64
3	Holbrook	60
4	Lower Stoke	58
5	Sherbourne	54
6	Bablake	53
7	Westwood	43
8	Whoberley	42
9	Earlsdon	35
10	Cheylesmore	31
11	Wainbody	10

Which road in Spon End has the highest level of crime?

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