Crime Statistics for Ham, London, Richmond Upon Thames, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ham in September 2024. There were a total of 169 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ham, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	40
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Shoplifting	18
Public Order	16
Vehicle Crime	13
Other Theft	12
Burglary	10
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Bicycle Theft	7
Theft From The Person	5
Drugs	4
Other Crime	3
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	169

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 Ham. 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 Ham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Margarets (1.24 miles)	585
Hampton Wick (1.86 miles)	566
Isleworth (2.24 miles)	477
Twickenham (1.39 miles)	294
Cole Park (0.88 miles)	245
Coombe (2.24 miles)	219
Strawberry Hill (1.24 miles)	213
Ham	169
Hampton Hill (1.96 miles)	156
Teddington (1.39 miles)	104

Where are the most violent places near Ham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hampton Wick	142
Isleworth	123
St Margarets	114
Twickenham	74
Strawberry Hill	63
Coombe	61
Hampton Hill	58
Cole Park	56
Ham	40
Teddington	25

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

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 Ham 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 Ham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Isleworth	65
2	Ham, Petersham and Richmond Riverside	55
3	West Twickenham	52
4	St Margarets and North Twickenham	47
5	Grove	46
6	Twickenham Riverside	44
7	South Twickenham	35
8	Fulwell and Hampton Hill	32
9	Tudor	30
10	Canbury	27
11	Teddington	23

Which road in Ham has the highest level of crime?

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