Crime Statistics for Lambourn, Speen, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lambourn in September 2024. There were a total of 109 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lambourn, 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	53
Shoplifting	17
Drugs	13
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Other Crime	5
Public Order	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Theft	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	109

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 Lambourn. 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 Lambourn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kennet (0.97 miles)	399
Newbury (1.06 miles)	253
Shaw (1.31 miles)	187
Speen (0.2 miles)	151
Donnington (0.2 miles)	151
Lambourn	109
Greenham (2.43 miles)	65
Bagnor (0.71 miles)	11
Curridge (2.12 miles)	10
Stockcross (1.81 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Lambourn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kennet	168
Newbury	91
Donnington	69
Shaw	66
Speen	61
Lambourn	53
Greenham	20
Bagnor	5
Curridge	4
Stockcross	1

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

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 Lambourn 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 Lambourn compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lambourn and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lambourn is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newbury Central	44
2	Newbury Greenham	41
3	Newbury Clay Hill	36
4	Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne	34
5	Thatcham North East	27
6	Newbury Speen	23
7	Hungerford & Kintbury	22
8	Chieveley & Cold Ash	20
9	Thatcham Central	20
10	Newbury Wash Common	17
11	Thatcham West	17

Which road in Lambourn has the highest level of crime?

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