Crime Statistics for Caversham, Reading, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Caversham in September 2024. There were a total of 364 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 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	108
Shoplifting	56
Other Theft	35
Public Order	34
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Vehicle Crime	20
Theft From The Person	18
Bicycle Theft	13
Burglary	11
Other Crime	11
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Robbery	8
Possession Of Weapons	5
Drugs	3
All Crime	364

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 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)	998
Reading (1.24 miles)	708
Coley (1.86 miles)	707
Caversham	364
Caversham Heights (0.62 miles)	239
Emmer Green (0.88 miles)	117
Littlestead Green (1.39 miles)	84
Dunsden Green (1.76 miles)	24
Tokers Green (1.75 miles)	8
Chazey Heath (1.75 miles)	8

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
Lower Caversham	447
Coley	295
Reading	258
Caversham	108
Caversham Heights	71
Littlestead Green	40
Emmer Green	32
Dunsden Green	6
Tokers Green	2
Chazey Heath	2

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.