Crime Statistics for Reading, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Reading in September 2024. There were a total of 708 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 Reading, 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	258
Shoplifting	78
Anti Social Behaviour	68
Public Order	57
Other Theft	51
Criminal Damage Arson	49
Vehicle Crime	29
Burglary	24
Theft From The Person	24
Bicycle Theft	23
Other Crime	18
Drugs	12
Robbery	10
Possession Of Weapons	7
All Crime	708

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 Reading. 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 Reading

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Caversham (0.88 miles)	998
Reading	708
Coley (0.62 miles)	707
Caversham (1.24 miles)	364
Foudry Brook (0.87 miles)	349
Caversham Heights (1.39 miles)	239
Horncastle (2.56 miles)	145
Emmer Green (1.96 miles)	117
Southcote (2.24 miles)	84
Littlestead Green (2.24 miles)	84

Where are the most violent places near Reading?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Caversham	447
Coley	295
Reading	258
Foudry Brook	119
Caversham	108
Horncastle	82
Caversham Heights	71
Southcote	44
Littlestead Green	40
Emmer Green	32

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

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 Reading 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 Reading compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey	80
2	Battle	76
3	Southcote	63
4	Whitley	62
5	Katesgrove	61
6	Church	61
7	Minster	58
8	Caversham	54
9	Kentwood	48
10	Park	45
11	Redlands	45

Which road in Reading has the highest level of crime?

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