Crime Statistics for Austenwood, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Austenwood in September 2024. There were a total of 53 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	13
Violent Crime	10
Shoplifting	9
Public Order	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Theft	3
Burglary	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	53

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 Austenwood. 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 Austenwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Austenwood	53
Gravel Hill (1.39 miles)	49
Layters Green (0.88 miles)	21
Hedgerley (2.24 miles)	20
Tatling End (1.75 miles)	14
Higher Denham (2.24 miles)	13
Hedgerley Green (1.75 miles)	12
Baker’s Wood (2.24 miles)	10
Gerrards Cross (1.24 miles)	8
Jordans (1.75 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Austenwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gravel Hill	44
Baker’s Wood	11
Austenwood	10
Layters Green	10
Higher Denham	9
Tatling End	8
Hedgerley	7
Hedgerley Green	6
Gerrards Cross	4
Jordans	1

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

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 Austenwood 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 Austenwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Austenwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Austenwood is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Farnham & Hedgerley	55
2	Denham	49
3	Stoke Poges	46
4	Gold Hill	37
5	Chorleywood South & Maple Cross	34
6	Central	31
7	Gerrards Cross	30
8	Beaconsfield North	19
9	Chalfont Common	18
10	Austenwood	2
11	Seer Green	1

Which road in Austenwood has the highest level of crime?

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