Crime Statistics for Little Marlow, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Marlow in September 2024. There were a total of 17 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Little Marlow, 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
Other Theft	2
Burglary	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Public Order	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	17

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 Little Marlow. 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 Little Marlow

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Marlow (1.76 miles)	71
Handy Cross (1.76 miles)	48
Marlow Bottom (1.86 miles)	44
Bourne End (1.39 miles)	26
Thames (1.33 miles)	24
Cores End (1.96 miles)	24
Fern (0.62 miles)	20
Little Marlow	17
Burroughs Grove (1.39 miles)	10
Sheepridge (0.88 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Little Marlow?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Marlow	30
Marlow Bottom	22
Thames	18
Handy Cross	15
Bourne End	14
Cores End	13
Little Marlow	10
Fern	8
Burroughs Grove	8
Sheepridge	3

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

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 Little Marlow 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 Little Marlow compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Burnham Lent Rise & Taplow	54
2	Ryemead	45
3	Abbey	43
4	Bowerdean	39
5	Booker and Cressex	25
6	Flackwell Heath and Little Marlow	25
7	Marlow North and West	20
8	The Wooburns	20
9	Marlow South East	12
10	Greater Marlow	10
11	Bourne End-cum-Hedsor	6

Which road in Little Marlow has the highest level of crime?

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