Crime Statistics for Banstead, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Banstead in September 2024. There were a total of 352 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 Banstead, 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	80
Shoplifting	68
Anti Social Behaviour	52
Public Order	44
Vehicle Crime	32
Burglary	24
Other Theft	24
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Drugs	12
All Crime	352

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 Banstead. 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 Banstead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Banstead	178
Belmont (1.86 miles)	115
Burgh Heath (1.39 miles)	83
North Looe (1.96 miles)	78
Cheam (1.96 miles)	51
Tadworth (2.63 miles)	46
Little Woodcote (2.24 miles)	29
Hooley (2.63 miles)	22
Chipstead (1.75 miles)	9
Langley Vale (2.77 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Banstead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Banstead	80
Burgh Heath	54
Belmont	40
Tadworth	40
North Looe	18
Little Woodcote	13
Cheam	12
Hooley	8
Chipstead	2
Langley Vale	1

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

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 Banstead 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 Banstead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Banstead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Banstead is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tattenham Corner & Preston	58
2	Chipstead, Kingswood & Woodmansterne	53
3	Banstead Village	53
4	Lower Kingswood, Tadworth & Walton	35
5	Woodcote	32
6	Sutton South	30
7	Nork	30
8	Nonsuch	29
9	College	28
10	Belmont	22
11	Cheam	22

Which road in Banstead has the highest level of crime?

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