Crime Statistics for Thames, Runnymede, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Thames in October 2024. There were a total of 176 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Drugs, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Drugs	104
Violent Crime	34
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Other Theft	7
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	7
Possession Of Weapons	2
Burglary	2
Theft From The Person	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	176

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Abbey Mead (1.43 miles)	480
Staines (1.06 miles)	313
Ashford (1.54 miles)	205
Chertsey (2.05 miles)	193
Chertsey Meads (2.11 miles)	191
Thames	176
Knowle Green (0.45 miles)	131
Laleham (0.95 miles)	114
Shepperton (2.25 miles)	67
Shepperton Green (2.25 miles)	67

Where are the most violent places near Thames?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Abbey Mead	209
Staines	93
Laleham	72
Ashford	69
Chertsey	59
Chertsey Meads	59
Knowle Green	44
Thames	34
Shepperton	21
Shepperton Green	21

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

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 Thames 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 Thames compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Thames and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Thames have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Staines.

#	Ward	Score
1	Staines	60
2	Ashford Town	54
3	Chertsey Riverside	54
4	Chertsey St Ann's	53
5	Staines South	44
6	Egham Town	43
7	Egham Hythe	40
8	Thorpe	40
9	Englefield Green East	39
10	Laleham and Shepperton Green	37
11	Riverside and Laleham	28

Which road in Thames has the highest level of crime?

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