Crime Statistics for Hook, London, Kingston Upon Thames, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hook in September 2024. There were a total of 139 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hook, 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	41
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Public Order	13
Vehicle Crime	11
Drugs	9
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Other Theft	6
Shoplifting	5
Other Crime	5
Burglary	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	139

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 Hook. 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 Hook

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ewell (2.24 miles)	425
Tolworth (0.88 miles)	235
Berrylands (1.96 miles)	233
Southborough (1.24 miles)	224
Hook	139
Chessington (0.62 miles)	110
Long Ditton (1.75 miles)	91
Barwell (0.88 miles)	71
Giggshill (1.75 miles)	51
Malden Rushett (1.96 miles)	22

Where are the most violent places near Hook?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ewell	148
Southborough	65
Tolworth	63
Berrylands	63
Hook	41
Long Ditton	39
Chessington	31
Barwell	25
Giggshill	21
Malden Rushett	5

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

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 Hook 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 Hook compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Court	71
2	Ruxley	64
3	Tolworth and Hook Rise	52
4	Chessington South	42
5	Hinchley Wood and Weston Green	39
6	Surbiton Hill	37
7	Chessington North and Hook	35
8	Alexandra	35
9	Cuddington	28
10	Berrylands	25
11	Claygate	17

Which road in Hook has the highest level of crime?

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