Crime Statistics for Badbury, Chiseldon, Swindon, 2024

There were a total of 11 street level crime incidents in Badbury in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Violent Crime	4
Other Theft	1
Public Order	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	11

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 Badbury. 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 Badbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Park (2.24 miles)	146
Dorcan (2.49 miles)	92
Coate (1.39 miles)	59
Wanborough (1.39 miles)	35
Badbury Wick (0.88 miles)	25
Badbury	11
Chiseldon (0.88 miles)	8
Draycot Foliat (1.96 miles)	3
Lower Wanborough (2.24 miles)	2
Hodson (1.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Badbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Park	54
Dorcan	34
Coate	22
Wanborough	13
Badbury Wick	13
Badbury	4
Chiseldon	1
Draycot Foliat	1
Lower Wanborough	1
Hodson	0

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

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 Badbury 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 Badbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Walcot and Park North	88
2	Central	85
3	Gorse Hill and Pinehurst	82
4	Eastcott	82
5	Liden, Eldene and Park South	69
6	Rodbourne Cheney	67
7	Old Town	59
8	Chiseldon and Lawn	55
9	St Margaret and South Marston	50
10	Covingham and Dorcan	45
11	Ridgeway	30

Which road in Badbury has the highest level of crime?

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