Crime Statistics for Waterhay, Leigh, Wiltshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Waterhay, Leigh

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime1

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 Waterhay. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Waterhay

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Cerney (2.78 miles)14
Cricklade (1.86 miles)9
Horsey Down (1.86 miles)9
Latton (2.24 miles)7
Hailstone Hill (1.39 miles)5
Lower Moor (2.77 miles)2
Waterhay1
Ashton Keynes (1.39 miles)1
Chelworth Lower Green (1.39 miles)0
Chelworth Upper Green (1.39 miles)0

6.6%
of South Cerney Village residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Waterhay?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Cerney4
Cricklade4
Horsey Down4
Latton3
Lower Moor2
Hailstone Hill1
Waterhay0
Ashton Keynes0
Chelworth Lower Green0
Chelworth Upper Green0

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

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 Waterhay 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 Waterhay compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1St Andrews45
2Shaw42
3Priory Vale41
4Purton34
5Watermoor24
6Royal Wootton Bassett East14
7Siddington & Cerney Rural9
8The Ampneys & Hampton3
9Chesterton2

Which road in Waterhay has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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