Crime Statistics for Knaphill, Woking, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Knaphill in August 2024. There were a total of 132 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 Knaphill, 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	50
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Public Order	15
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Shoplifting	8
Drugs	6
Other Theft	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	132

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 Knaphill. 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 Knaphill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Horsell (1.96 miles)	238
Knaphill	132
Horsell Birch (1.39 miles)	124
Miles Green (0.62 miles)	99
Bisley (0.88 miles)	84
Castle Green (1.24 miles)	65
Sheets Heath (1.39 miles)	46
Brookwood (0.88 miles)	43
St Johns (1.39 miles)	28
Hook Heath (1.39 miles)	28

Where are the most violent places near Knaphill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Horsell	73
Knaphill	50
Horsell Birch	47
Sheets Heath	40
Miles Green	39
Bisley	39
Brookwood	20
Castle Green	13
St Johns	11
Hook Heath	11

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

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 Knaphill 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 Knaphill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Knaphill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Knaphill is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Canalside	60
2	Hoe Valley	54
3	Knaphill	44
4	Mount Hermon	43
5	Horsell	36
6	Windlesham & Chobham	34
7	Heathlands	34
8	St John's	32
9	Goldsworth Park	27
10	Lightwater	12
11	Pirbright	4

Which road in Knaphill has the highest level of crime?

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