Crime Statistics for Towerage, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Towerage in September 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Towerage, 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	4
Public Order	3
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	9

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 Towerage. 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 Towerage

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cressex (1.75 miles)	75
Booker (1.39 miles)	56
Handy Cross (2.63 miles)	48
Downley (1.75 miles)	46
Sands (0.62 miles)	30
Lane End (1.39 miles)	10
Towerage	9
Horsleys Green (2.77 miles)	5
Beacon’s Bottom (2.77 miles)	5
Bolter End (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Towerage?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cressex	37
Downley	35
Sands	16
Handy Cross	15
Booker	7
Lane End	4
Towerage	4
Horsleys Green	0
Beacon’s Bottom	0
Bolter End	0

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

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 Towerage 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 Towerage compare to surrounding wards?

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

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

Which road in Towerage has the highest level of crime?

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