Crime Statistics for Caversham, Reading, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Caversham in October 2024. There were a total of 382 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Caversham, 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	105
Other Theft	51
Shoplifting	49
Public Order	31
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Vehicle Crime	22
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Theft From The Person	21
Burglary	21
Bicycle Theft	14
Robbery	7
Possession Of Weapons	5
Drugs	4
Other Crime	1
All Crime	382

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Caversham. 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 Caversham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Caversham (0.88 miles)	731
Coley (1.86 miles)	652
Reading (1.24 miles)	546
Caversham	382
Caversham Heights (0.62 miles)	210
Littlestead Green (1.39 miles)	153
Emmer Green (0.88 miles)	138
Dunsden Green (1.76 miles)	31
Tokers Green (1.75 miles)	18
Chazey Heath (1.75 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Caversham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Reading	384
Lower Caversham	281
Coley	193
Caversham	105
Caversham Heights	80
Littlestead Green	60
Emmer Green	60
Tokers Green	22
Dunsden Green	10
Chazey Heath	6

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

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 Caversham 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 Caversham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Caversham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Caversham have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Abbey.

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey	80
2	Battle	76
3	Katesgrove	61
4	Minster	58
5	Caversham	54
6	Kentwood	48
7	Redlands	45
8	Sonning Common	29
9	Peppard	17
10	Thames	12
11	Mapledurham	2

Which road in Caversham has the highest level of crime?

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