Crime Statistics for Sands, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sands in October 2024. There were a total of 106 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 Sands, 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	37
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Drugs	12
Public Order	12
Other Theft	5
Other Crime	2
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	106

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 Sands. 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 Sands

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Terriers (2.55 miles)	596
Four Ashes (2.77 miles)	130
Sands	101
Cressex (1.39 miles)	92
Downley (1.39 miles)	88
Handy Cross (2.24 miles)	50
Booker (1.24 miles)	48
Towerage (0.62 miles)	18
Lane End (1.96 miles)	13
Bolter End (2.56 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Sands?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Terriers	210
Four Ashes	61
Sands	37
Downley	37
Cressex	35
Booker	20
Handy Cross	14
Bolter End	2
Towerage	1
Lane End	1

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

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 Sands 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 Sands compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sands and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sands is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Disraeli	48
2	Abbey	43
3	Oakridge and Castlefield	43
4	Totteridge	42
5	Terriers and Amersham Hill	42
6	Bowerdean	39
7	Sands	32
8	Chiltern Rise	25
9	Booker and Cressex	25
10	Downley and Plomer Hill	21
11	Greater Marlow	10

Which road in Sands has the highest level of crime?

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