Crime Statistics for Great Shefford, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Shefford in August 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime1

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Sheepdrove (3.97 miles)9
Lambourn Woodlands (4.34 miles)4
Hoe Benham (4.17 miles)2
Brightwalton Green (3.1 miles)2
Boxford (3.51 miles)2
Southend (3.1 miles)2
Wawcott (4.39 miles)1
Great Shefford1
Shefford Woodlands (1.75 miles)0
Leckhampstead Thicket (2.56 miles)0

6.84%
of Downlands residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Shefford?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Sheepdrove6
Brightwalton Green2
Southend2
Hoe Benham1
Wawcott1
Lambourn Woodlands0
Boxford0
Great Shefford0
Shefford Woodlands0
Leckhampstead Thicket0

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

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 Great Shefford 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 Great Shefford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Lambourn46
2Newbury Central44
3Newbury Greenham41
4Newbury Clay Hill36
5Newbury Speen23
6Hungerford & Kintbury22
7Ridgeway19
8Newbury Wash Common17
9Burbage and the Bedwyns14
10Downlands13
11Aldbourne and Ramsbury10

Which road in Great Shefford has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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