Crime Statistics for Leagrave, Lewsey Farm, Luton, 2024

Is Leagrave rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 340 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Leagrave, 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 Crime169
Other Theft42
Vehicle Crime41
Criminal Damage Arson26
Burglary16
Anti Social Behaviour12
Drugs8
Public Order7
Other Crime4
Theft From The Person4
Shoplifting4
Robbery3
Bicycle Theft2
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime340

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Biscot (1.96 miles)1386
Round Green (2.56 miles)1224
Bury Park (2.24 miles)832
Leagrave324
Bidwell (2.55 miles)250
Parkside (1.96 miles)225
Farley Hill (2.24 miles)96
Downside (2.24 miles)87
Lower Sundon (2.48 miles)32
Chaul End (1.24 miles)24

42.21%
of Challney residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Leagrave?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Biscot530
Round Green431
Bury Park259
Leagrave169
Parkside94
Bidwell85
Farley Hill46
Downside43
Lower Sundon16
Chaul End15

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

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 Leagrave 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 Leagrave compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Leagrave and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Leagrave is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Dunstable-Manshead86
2Parkside85
3Houghton Hall76
4Challney74
5Limbury71
6Northwell71
7Lewsey71
8Leagrave68
9Sundon Park62
10Dunstable-Icknield62
11Saints53

Which road in Leagrave has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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