Crime Statistics for Newbury, Berkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newbury in October 2024. There were a total of 1208 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 Newbury, 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	391
Shoplifting	160
Criminal Damage Arson	116
Anti Social Behaviour	112
Public Order	88
Vehicle Crime	80
Drugs	72
Other Theft	60
Bicycle Theft	40
Burglary	40
Other Crime	21
Theft From The Person	20
Robbery	8
All Crime	1208

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 Newbury. 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 Newbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newbury	610
Shaw (0.88 miles)	299
Kennet (0.26 miles)	281
Donnington (0.88 miles)	214
Speen (0.88 miles)	164
Lambourn (1.06 miles)	147
Greenham (1.39 miles)	118
Ashmore Green (2.24 miles)	46
Bury’s Bank (1.76 miles)	36
Bagnor (1.75 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Newbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newbury	391
Shaw	116
Kennet	98
Donnington	85
Lambourn	57
Speen	56
Greenham	47
Ashmore Green	20
Bury’s Bank	10
Bagnor	5

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

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 Newbury 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 Newbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Newbury Central	44
2	Newbury Greenham	41
3	Newbury Clay Hill	36
4	Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne	34
5	Thatcham North East	27
6	Newbury Speen	23
7	Hungerford & Kintbury	22
8	Chieveley & Cold Ash	20
9	Thatcham Central	20
10	Newbury Wash Common	17
11	Thatcham West	17

Which road in Newbury has the highest level of crime?

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