Crime Statistics for Shenley Wood, Upper Weald, Milton Keynes, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shenley Wood in August 2024. There were a total of 164 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 Shenley Wood, 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	40
Shoplifting	38
Other Theft	30
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Vehicle Crime	11
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	8
Drugs	5
Burglary	4
Other Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	164

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 Shenley Wood. 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 Shenley Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shenley Lodge (1.24 miles)	275
Shenley Church End (0.62 miles)	220
Furzton (1.39 miles)	219
Shenley Brook End (0.88 miles)	184
Shenley Wood	164
Loughton (0.88 miles)	147
Tattenhoe (1.39 miles)	138
Crowhill (0.62 miles)	92
Great Holm (1.24 miles)	85
Two Mile Ash (1.39 miles)	68

Where are the most violent places near Shenley Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shenley Lodge	122
Shenley Church End	70
Furzton	69
Loughton	60
Shenley Brook End	59
Great Holm	53
Crowhill	45
Shenley Wood	40
Tattenhoe	27
Two Mile Ash	23

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

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 Shenley Wood 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 Shenley Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shenley Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Shenley Wood is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Woughton & Fishermead	75
2	Central Milton Keynes	67
3	Wolverton	63
4	Bletchley Park	42
5	Bradwell	41
6	Shenley Brook End	38
7	Bletchley West	37
8	Tattenhoe	36
9	Loughton & Shenley	33
10	Luffield Abbey	9
11	Great Horwood	8

Which road in Shenley Wood has the highest level of crime?

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