Crime Statistics for Hotley Bottom, Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hotley Bottom in September 2024. There were a total of 36 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hotley Bottom, 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	15
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Public Order	6
Other Theft	5
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	36

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 Hotley Bottom. 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 Hotley Bottom

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Great Missenden (1.24 miles)	30
Hotley Bottom	27
Mobwell (1.24 miles)	16
Frith-hill (1.86 miles)	12
Lower North Dean (2.24 miles)	7
Great Kingshill (1.86 miles)	6
Little Kingshill (1.75 miles)	4
Speen (2.24 miles)	4
Stony Green (1.39 miles)	2
Bryant’s Bottom (1.75 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Hotley Bottom?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hotley Bottom	15
Great Missenden	10
Mobwell	6
Frith-hill	5
Great Kingshill	5
Lower North Dean	3
Speen	3
Stony Green	2
Little Kingshill	1
Bryant’s Bottom	0

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

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 Hotley Bottom 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 Hotley Bottom compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hotley Bottom and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Hotley Bottom have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens.

#	Ward	Score
1	Great Missenden	29
2	Downley and Plomer Hill	21
3	Cholesbury, The Lee and Bellingdon	18
4	Little Missenden	18
5	Wendover & Halton	17
6	Icknield	15
7	Holmer Green	12
8	Prestwood and Heath End	8
9	Hazlemere North	8
10	Ballinger, South Heath and Chartridge	4
11	Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens	2

Which road in Hotley Bottom has the highest level of crime?

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