Crime Statistics for Basingstoke Canal, Guildford, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Basingstoke Canal in September 2024. There were a total of 32 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 Basingstoke Canal, 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	12
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Burglary	3
Public Order	2
Other Theft	2
Shoplifting	1
Robbery	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	32

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 Basingstoke Canal. 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 Basingstoke Canal

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Montgomery Lines (2.62 miles)	255
Farnborough Street (2.15 miles)	249
Farnborough Park (1.75 miles)	209
Frimley Green (1.78 miles)	150
South Farnborough (1.52 miles)	124
Farnborough (1.52 miles)	124
Ash (1.57 miles)	122
Ash Vale (0.4 miles)	43
Basingstoke Canal	32
Pirbright Camp (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Basingstoke Canal?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Montgomery Lines	87
Farnborough Street	79
Farnborough Park	65
Frimley Green	50
Ash	46
South Farnborough	39
Farnborough	39
Ash Vale	30
Basingstoke Canal	12
Pirbright Camp	0

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

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 Basingstoke Canal 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 Basingstoke Canal compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Basingstoke Canal and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Basingstoke Canal is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Cherrywood	73
2	Wellington	64
3	Empress	54
4	Ash Wharf	51
5	St Mark's	37
6	Ash Vale	34
7	North Town	33
8	Knellwood	29
9	Normandy	26
10	Mytchett & Deepcut	16
11	Pirbright	4

Which road in Basingstoke Canal has the highest level of crime?

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