Crime Statistics for Cross Lanes, Oxfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cross Lanes in August 2024. There were a total of 5 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Drugs, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Drugs	2
Other Theft	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	5

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Caversham Heights (2.63 miles)	299
Mapledurham (1.24 miles)	112
Shiplake Bottom (2.24 miles)	12
Tokers Green (1.39 miles)	10
Chazey Heath (1.39 miles)	10
Cross Lanes	5
Goring Heath (1.39 miles)	4
Collins End (1.24 miles)	4
Kidmore End (1.39 miles)	3
Cold Harbour (2.56 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Cross Lanes?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Caversham Heights	103
Mapledurham	28
Shiplake Bottom	6
Tokers Green	1
Chazey Heath	1
Collins End	1
Kidmore End	1
Cold Harbour	1
Cross Lanes	0
Goring Heath	0

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

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 Cross Lanes 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 Cross Lanes compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cross Lanes and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cross Lanes is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey	80
2	Battle	76
3	Norcot	75
4	Tilehurst	59
5	Caversham	54
6	Kentwood	48
7	Kidmore End & Whitchurch	23
8	Tilehurst Birch Copse	17
9	Peppard	17
10	Tilehurst & Purley	11
11	Mapledurham	2

Which road in Cross Lanes has the highest level of crime?

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