Crime Statistics for Lower Earley, Shinfield, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Earley in October 2024. There were a total of 138 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lower Earley, 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	66
Public Order	17
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Drugs	11
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Shoplifting	6
Other Theft	6
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	138

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 Lower Earley. 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 Lower Earley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Foudry Brook (2.61 miles)	380
Earley (0.62 miles)	193
Lower Earley	125
Shinfield (1.75 miles)	77
Langley Common (2.56 miles)	44
Emmbrook (2.56 miles)	42
Arborfield Cross (1.96 miles)	19
Barkham (2.63 miles)	12
Carter’s Hill (0.88 miles)	9
Arborfield (1.86 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Lower Earley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Foudry Brook	100
Earley	86
Lower Earley	66
Shinfield	24
Langley Common	23
Emmbrook	23
Arborfield Cross	7
Barkham	7
Carter’s Hill	4
Arborfield	2

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

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 Lower Earley 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 Lower Earley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Whitley	62
2	Church	61
3	Park	45
4	Shinfield North	33
5	Arborfield	25
6	South Lake	21
7	Loddon	18
8	Hillside	13
9	Coronation	11
10	Maiden Erlegh	8
11	Hawkedon	7

Which road in Lower Earley has the highest level of crime?

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