Crime Statistics for Amersham Common, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Amersham Common in September 2024. There were a total of 28 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Amersham Common, 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 Crime13
Criminal Damage Arson3
Anti Social Behaviour3
Vehicle Crime2
Public Order2
Other Crime2
Robbery1
Shoplifting1
Other Theft1
All Crime28

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 Amersham Common. 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 Amersham Common

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Amersham on the Hill (0.62 miles)110
Chesham Bois (1.24 miles)61
Amersham (0.62 miles)55
Lower Bois (1.86 miles)43
Amersham Common28
Little Chalfont (1.86 miles)28
Mantles Green (0.62 miles)17
Amersham Old Town (0.62 miles)14
Coleshill (1.76 miles)2
Misbourne (1.45 miles)1

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Where are the most violent places near Amersham Common?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Amersham on the Hill78
Chesham Bois24
Lower Bois21
Amersham20
Amersham Common13
Mantles Green8
Little Chalfont7
Amersham Old Town7
Coleshill0
Misbourne0

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

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 Amersham Common 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 Amersham Common compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Amersham Common and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Amersham Common is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1St Mary's and Waterside41
2Amersham-on-the-Hill37
3Asheridge Vale and Lowndes31
4Hilltop and Townsend24
5Little Chalfont24
6Beaconsfield North19
7Chalfont St Giles14
8Amersham Common13
9Amersham Town12
10Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill11
11Seer Green1

Which road in Amersham Common has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Amersham Common 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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