Crime Statistics for Ashtead, Mole Valley, Surrey, 2025

Is Ashtead rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 63 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ashtead, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime28
Criminal Damage Arson7
Other Crime5
Public Order5
Other Theft5
Shoplifting4
Anti Social Behaviour4
Burglary3
Possession Of Weapons1
Drugs1
All Crime63

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Epsom (1.75 miles)313
Lower Ashtead (0.88 miles)174
Leatherhead (1.75 miles)87
Leatherhead Common (1.24 miles)86
Ashtead63
Pachesham Park (1.39 miles)41
Mole (2.35 miles)23
Langley Vale (1.96 miles)18
Tyrell’s Wood (1.86 miles)13
Malden Rushett (1.96 miles)12

12.63%
of Ashtead Village residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ashtead?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Epsom134
Lower Ashtead69
Ashtead28
Leatherhead24
Leatherhead Common23
Pachesham Park14
Langley Vale10
Tyrell’s Wood8
Mole5
Malden Rushett3

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

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 Ashtead 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 Ashtead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Court71
2Town64
3Stamford53
4Chessington South42
5Woodcote32
6Leatherhead South31
7Leatherhead North25
8Ashtead Common21
9Ashtead Park19
10Ashtead Village17
11Fetcham East13

Which road in Ashtead has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
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