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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hopgoods Green in September 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 Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Burglary.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Burglary	4
Other Theft	4
Violent Crime	3
Drugs	2
Shoplifting	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	21

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Thatcham (1.75 miles)	188
Turner’s Green (0.62 miles)	136
Ashmore Green (1.86 miles)	88
Colthrop (1.86 miles)	65
Cold Ash (1.24 miles)	53
Hopgoods Green	21
Upper Bucklebury (0.88 miles)	17
Miles’s Green (0.62 miles)	12
Bucklebury (1.39 miles)	6
Bucklebury Alley (1.39 miles)	4

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Thatcham	79
Ashmore Green	72
Colthrop	50
Turner’s Green	38
Cold Ash	22
Hopgoods Green	3
Upper Bucklebury	3
Miles’s Green	2
Bucklebury Alley	2
Bucklebury	1

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newbury Central	44
2	Newbury Greenham	41
3	Newbury Clay Hill	36
4	Thatcham North East	27
5	Aldermaston	26
6	Newbury Speen	23
7	Chieveley & Cold Ash	20
8	Thatcham Central	20
9	Thatcham Colthrop	20
10	Thatcham West	17
11	Bucklebury	11

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.