Crime Statistics for Sheerwater, Woking, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sheerwater in September 2024. There were a total of 123 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 Sheerwater, 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	47
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Public Order	11
Other Theft	10
Drugs	6
Robbery	4
Shoplifting	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Crime	3
Burglary	2
All Crime	123

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 Sheerwater. 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 Sheerwater

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maybury (1.39 miles)	269
Horsell (1.96 miles)	161
Row Town (2.24 miles)	144
Byfleet (2.55 miles)	130
Horsell Birch (2.56 miles)	97
Sheerwater	88
Cartbridge (2.56 miles)	74
Rowhill (1.96 miles)	44
Mimbridge (2.56 miles)	18
Stonehill (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Sheerwater?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Byfleet	92
Maybury	87
Sheerwater	47
Horsell	45
Row Town	37
Cartbridge	35
Horsell Birch	27
Mimbridge	13
Rowhill	10
Stonehill	0

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

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 Sheerwater 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 Sheerwater compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Lovelace	64
2	Canalside	60
3	Hoe Valley	54
4	Woodham & Rowtown	43
5	Mount Hermon	43
6	Longcross, Lyne & Chertsey South	43
7	Horsell	36
8	Byfleet and West Byfleet	36
9	St John's	32
10	Pyrford	31
11	Goldsworth Park	27

Which road in Sheerwater has the highest level of crime?

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