Crime Statistics for Newfound, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newfound in August 2024. There were a total of 24 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 Newfound, 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	12
Public Order	3
Theft From The Person	2
Shoplifting	2
Burglary	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	24

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Newfound. 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 Newfound

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Ham (1.86 miles)	393
Buckskin (1.24 miles)	95
Brighton Hill (2.77 miles)	80
Kempshott (1.39 miles)	63
Newfound	24
Broadmere (3.1 miles)	17
Church Oakley (1.39 miles)	16
Oakley (1.39 miles)	16
Clarken Green (1.39 miles)	16
Pardown (1.39 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Newfound?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Ham	172
Kempshott	62
Buckskin	45
Brighton Hill	25
Newfound	12
Church Oakley	7
Oakley	7
Clarken Green	7
Broadmere	6
Pardown	4

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

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 Newfound 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 Newfound compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	South Ham	86
2	Buckskin	70
3	Winklebury	70
4	Norden	66
5	Rooksdown	57
6	Brighton Hill South	45
7	Sherborne St John	45
8	Grove	32
9	Kempshott	24
10	Oakley and North Waltham	23
11	Hatch Warren and Beggarwood	10

Which road in Newfound has the highest level of crime?

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