Crime Statistics for Farnborough, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Farnborough in September 2024. There were a total of 107 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	33
Violent Crime	22
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Public Order	9
Vehicle Crime	7
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Drugs	6
Burglary	3
Other Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	107

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 Farnborough. 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 Farnborough

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ramsden (2.23 miles)	188
Broom Hill (1.39 miles)	133
Crofton (1.24 miles)	126
Farnborough	107
Locksbottom (0.88 miles)	98
Chelsfield (1.24 miles)	85
Keston Mark (1.39 miles)	84
Green Street Green (0.88 miles)	75
Keston (1.86 miles)	28
Downe (1.96 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Farnborough?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ramsden	54
Locksbottom	39
Broom Hill	34
Crofton	29
Keston Mark	24
Farnborough	22
Chelsfield	13
Green Street Green	11
Keston	8
Downe	4

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

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 Farnborough 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 Farnborough compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Farnborough and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Farnborough is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Cray Valley East	79
2	Cray Valley West	74
3	Orpington	55
4	Chislehurst	55
5	Bromley Common and Keston	47
6	Darwin	41
7	Halstead, Knockholt and Badgers Mount	37
8	Hayes and Coney Hall	34
9	Petts Wood and Knoll	29
10	Farnborough and Crofton	21
11	Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom	18

Which road in Farnborough has the highest level of crime?

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