Crime Statistics for Amersham Common, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Amersham Common in October 2024. There were a total of 30 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 Amersham Common, 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	10
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Public Order	4
Other Theft	2
Shoplifting	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Robbery	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	30

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 Amersham Common. 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 Amersham Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chesham Bois (1.24 miles)	53
Amersham (0.62 miles)	50
Amersham on the Hill (0.62 miles)	50
Lower Bois (1.86 miles)	40
Amersham Common	30
Little Chalfont (1.86 miles)	26
Mantles Green (0.62 miles)	14
Amersham Old Town (0.62 miles)	14
Coleshill (1.76 miles)	6
Misbourne (1.45 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Amersham Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chesham Bois	28
Amersham	18
Amersham on the Hill	18
Lower Bois	13
Amersham Common	10
Little Chalfont	8
Mantles Green	4
Amersham Old Town	4
Coleshill	1
Misbourne	0

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

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 Amersham Common 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 Amersham Common compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Amersham Common and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Amersham Common is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Mary's and Waterside	41
2	Amersham-on-the-Hill	37
3	Asheridge Vale and Lowndes	31
4	Hilltop and Townsend	24
5	Little Chalfont	24
6	Beaconsfield North	19
7	Chalfont St Giles	14
8	Amersham Common	13
9	Amersham Town	12
10	Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill	11
11	Seer Green	1

Which road in Amersham Common has the highest level of crime?

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