Crime Statistics for Gatton, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gatton in September 2024. There were a total of 50 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gatton, 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	19
Public Order	10
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Drugs	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Other Theft	2
All Crime	50

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 Gatton. 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 Gatton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Holmethorpe (1.39 miles)	192
Redhill (1.86 miles)	183
Coles Meads (1.24 miles)	180
South Merstham (1.39 miles)	93
Margery (1.39 miles)	92
Gatton	37
Hooley (1.96 miles)	22
Lower Kingswood (1.86 miles)	13
Chipstead (2.49 miles)	9
Mogador (2.55 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Gatton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Coles Meads	81
Holmethorpe	67
Redhill	63
Margery	33
South Merstham	31
Gatton	19
Hooley	8
Chipstead	2
Lower Kingswood	0
Mogador	0

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

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 Gatton 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 Gatton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bletchingley and Nutfield	66
2	Hooley, Merstham & Netherne	62
3	Banstead Village	53
4	Earlswood & Whitebushes	43
5	Redhill East	40
6	South Park & Woodhatch	40
7	Lower Kingswood, Tadworth & Walton	35
8	Redhill West & Wray Common	35
9	Meadvale & St John's	34
10	Reigate	27
11	Brockham, Betchworth and Buckland	23

Which road in Gatton has the highest level of crime?

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