Crime Statistics for Staines, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Staines in September 2024. There were a total of 310 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 Staines, 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	89
Anti Social Behaviour	60
Other Theft	29
Shoplifting	29
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Public Order	25
Burglary	16
Other Crime	12
Drugs	10
Vehicle Crime	6
Theft From The Person	3
Robbery	3
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	310

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 Staines. 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 Staines

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Staines	310
Ashford (1.24 miles)	237
Chattern Hill (2.48 miles)	139
Egham (2.48 miles)	122
Knowle Green (0.62 miles)	108
Littleton Common (2.55 miles)	105
Abbey Mead (2.48 miles)	93
Thames (1.06 miles)	61
Laleham (1.96 miles)	42
Colne Brook (2.34 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Staines?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ashford	94
Staines	89
Chattern Hill	44
Egham	40
Littleton Common	39
Knowle Green	38
Abbey Mead	35
Thames	28
Laleham	13
Colne Brook	6

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

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 Staines 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 Staines compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Staines and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Staines is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stanwell North	82
2	Ashford North and Stanwell South	70
3	Staines	60
4	Ashford Town	54
5	Staines South	44
6	Egham Town	43
7	Egham Hythe	40
8	Thorpe	40
9	Englefield Green East	39
10	Laleham and Shepperton Green	37
11	Riverside and Laleham	28

Which road in Staines has the highest level of crime?

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