Crime Statistics for Wash Water, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wash Water in August 2024. There were a total of 14 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	8
Violent Crime	4
Anti Social Behaviour	2
All Crime	14

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 Wash Water. 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 Wash Water

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wash Common (0.62 miles)	24
Wash Water	16
Tot Hill (0.88 miles)	11
Broad Laying (1.39 miles)	11
Burghclere Common (1.39 miles)	8
Enborne Row (0.62 miles)	7
Burghclere (1.75 miles)	6
Earlstone Common (1.75 miles)	6
Enborne (1.56 miles)	5
Crockham Heath (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Wash Water?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Broad Laying	9
Enborne Row	5
Enborne	5
Wash Common	4
Wash Water	4
Burghclere Common	3
Tot Hill	2
Burghclere	0
Earlstone Common	0
Crockham Heath	0

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

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 Wash Water 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 Wash Water compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wash Water and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Wash Water is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newbury Central	44
2	Newbury Greenham	41
3	Newbury Clay Hill	36
4	Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne	34
5	Thatcham North East	27
6	Newbury Speen	23
7	Hungerford & Kintbury	22
8	Chieveley & Cold Ash	20
9	Newbury Wash Common	17
10	Thatcham West	17
11	East Woodhay	3

Which road in Wash Water has the highest level of crime?

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