Crime Statistics for Hopgoods Green, Upper Bucklebury, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hopgoods Green in October 2024. There were a total of 21 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 Hopgoods Green, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime5
Anti Social Behaviour4
Burglary4
Other Theft3
Drugs2
Vehicle Crime2
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime21

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 Hopgoods Green. 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 Hopgoods Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Thatcham (1.75 miles)142
Cold Ash (1.24 miles)124
Turner’s Green (0.62 miles)70
Colthrop (1.86 miles)61
Ashmore Green (1.86 miles)46
Hopgoods Green21
Upper Bucklebury (0.88 miles)16
Bucklebury Alley (1.39 miles)9
Bucklebury (1.39 miles)3
Miles’s Green (0.62 miles)2

10.47%
of Bucklebury residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hopgoods Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cold Ash84
Thatcham49
Colthrop32
Turner’s Green20
Ashmore Green20
Hopgoods Green5
Upper Bucklebury5
Bucklebury Alley3
Bucklebury0
Miles’s Green0

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

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 Hopgoods Green 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 Hopgoods Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Newbury Central44
2Newbury Greenham41
3Newbury Clay Hill36
4Thatcham North East27
5Aldermaston26
6Newbury Speen23
7Chieveley & Cold Ash20
8Thatcham Central20
9Thatcham Colthrop20
10Thatcham West17
11Bucklebury11

Which road in Hopgoods Green has the highest level of crime?

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

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