Crime Statistics for Syston, Charnwood, Leicestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Syston in September 2024. There were a total of 132 incidents. 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 Syston, 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 Crime41
Shoplifting32
Anti Social Behaviour22
Vehicle Crime10
Burglary7
Other Theft4
Criminal Damage Arson4
Public Order4
Drugs3
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery1
Theft From The Person1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime132

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Syston. 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 Syston

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Thurmaston (1.39 miles)163
Birstall (2.24 miles)163
Syston132
Wanlip (1.39 miles)107
Sileby (2.78 miles)48
Barkby (1.39 miles)48
Barkby Thorpe (1.39 miles)46
Ratcliffe on the Wreake (1.96 miles)35
Rearsby (2.63 miles)19
Cossington (1.75 miles)5

13.5%
of Syston West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Syston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Birstall54
Thurmaston48
Wanlip43
Syston41
Barkby Thorpe27
Sileby26
Barkby22
Rearsby5
Ratcliffe on the Wreake2
Cossington2

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

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 Syston 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 Syston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Rushey Mead60
2Troon60
3Humberstone & Hamilton56
4Queniborough53
5Birstall Watermead46
6Syston East46
7Thurmaston46
8Syston West45
9Barrow and Sileby West37
10Birstall Wanlip35
11East Goscote13

Which road in Syston has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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