Crime Statistics for Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Farnborough in October 2024. There were a total of 178 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Farnborough, 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	78
Shoplifting	26
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Vehicle Crime	13
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Public Order	9
Burglary	6
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	178

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 Farnborough. 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 Farnborough

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Farnborough Park (0.62 miles)	301
Farnborough Street (1.24 miles)	265
South Farnborough	220
Farnborough Green (1.86 miles)	174
Farnborough	161
Rafborough (1.39 miles)	121
Frimley Green (1.39 miles)	121
Ash Vale (1.39 miles)	65
Southwood (1.96 miles)	45
Basingstoke Canal (1.52 miles)	32

Where are the most violent places near Farnborough?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Farnborough Park	128
South Farnborough	91
Farnborough Green	85
Farnborough	78
Farnborough Street	74
Rafborough	40
Frimley Green	33
Ash Vale	28
Southwood	20
Basingstoke Canal	15

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

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 Farnborough 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 Farnborough compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Cherrywood	73
2	Wellington	64
3	West Heath	61
4	Empress	54
5	Ash Wharf	51
6	St John's	41
7	St Mark's	37
8	Ash Vale	34
9	North Town	33
10	Knellwood	29
11	Mytchett & Deepcut	16

Which road in Farnborough has the highest level of crime?

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