Crime Statistics for Arborfield, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Arborfield in September 2024. There were a total of 11 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Violent Crime	3
Public Order	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	11

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 Arborfield. 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 Arborfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Langley Common (0.88 miles)	154
Ryeish Green (1.86 miles)	111
Lower Earley (1.86 miles)	78
Arborfield Garrison (1.39 miles)	72
Shinfield (1.39 miles)	58
Arborfield Cross (0.62 miles)	49
Arborfield	12
Barkham (1.86 miles)	10
Carter’s Hill (1.39 miles)	8
Farley Hill (1.86 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Arborfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Langley Common	52
Ryeish Green	34
Lower Earley	28
Arborfield Garrison	28
Shinfield	21
Arborfield Cross	12
Arborfield	3
Barkham	3
Farley Hill	2
Carter’s Hill	1

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

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 Arborfield 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 Arborfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Whitley	62
2	Shinfield North	33
3	Arborfield	25
4	Swallowfield	24
5	Finchampstead South	21
6	Winnersh	14
7	Hillside	13
8	Hawkedon	7
9	Evendons	4
10	Finchampstead North	3
11	Barkham	2

Which road in Arborfield has the highest level of crime?

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