Crime Statistics for Cold Ash, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cold Ash in October 2024. There were a total of 248 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 Cold Ash, 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	84
Anti Social Behaviour	60
Drugs	24
Other Theft	20
Burglary	12
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Vehicle Crime	12
Public Order	8
Robbery	8
Bicycle Theft	4
Shoplifting	4
All Crime	248

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 Cold Ash. 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 Cold Ash

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shaw (1.96 miles)	299
Thatcham (1.24 miles)	142
Cold Ash	124
Turner’s Green (1.39 miles)	70
Ashmore Green (0.62 miles)	46
Hopgoods Green (1.24 miles)	21
Upper Bucklebury (1.96 miles)	16
Bucklebury Alley (0.62 miles)	9
Longlane (1.39 miles)	4
Miles’s Green (1.86 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Cold Ash?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shaw	116
Cold Ash	84
Thatcham	49
Turner’s Green	20
Ashmore Green	20
Hopgoods Green	5
Upper Bucklebury	5
Bucklebury Alley	3
Longlane	1
Miles’s Green	0

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

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 Cold Ash 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 Cold Ash compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cold Ash and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cold Ash is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newbury Central	44
2	Newbury Greenham	41
3	Newbury Clay Hill	36
4	Thatcham North East	27
5	Newbury Speen	23
6	Chieveley & Cold Ash	20
7	Thatcham Central	20
8	Thatcham Colthrop	20
9	Newbury Wash Common	17
10	Thatcham West	17
11	Bucklebury	11

Which road in Cold Ash has the highest level of crime?

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