Crime Statistics for Coley, Reading, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Coley in September 2024. There were a total of 767 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 Coley, 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	295
Shoplifting	164
Public Order	55
Other Theft	45
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Vehicle Crime	32
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Theft From The Person	31
Bicycle Theft	30
Robbery	15
Other Crime	14
Burglary	10
Drugs	8
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	767

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 Coley. 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 Coley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Caversham (1.39 miles)	789
Reading (0.62 miles)	731
Coley	707
Caversham (1.86 miles)	364
Foudry Brook (0.26 miles)	358
Caversham Heights (1.96 miles)	239
Horncastle (2.48 miles)	191
Churchend (2.48 miles)	127
Southcote (1.96 miles)	79
Pingewood (2.24 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Coley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Reading	400
Coley	295
Lower Caversham	274
Horncastle	136
Caversham	108
Foudry Brook	105
Churchend	90
Caversham Heights	71
Southcote	25
Pingewood	3

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

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 Coley 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 Coley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Coley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Coley is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey	80
2	Battle	76
3	Southcote	63
4	Whitley	62
5	Katesgrove	61
6	Church	61
7	Minster	58
8	Park	45
9	Redlands	45
10	Shinfield South	26
11	Maiden Erlegh	8

Which road in Coley has the highest level of crime?

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