Crime Statistics for Thames, Runnymede, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Thames in September 2024. There were a total of 61 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 Thames, 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	28
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Other Theft	6
Public Order	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	61

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 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
Staines (1.06 miles)	310
Ashford (1.54 miles)	237
Chertsey Meads (2.11 miles)	171
Chertsey (2.05 miles)	141
Knowle Green (0.45 miles)	108
Abbey Mead (1.43 miles)	93
Thames	61
Shepperton (2.25 miles)	58
Shepperton Green (2.25 miles)	58
Laleham (0.95 miles)	42

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
Ashford	94
Staines	89
Chertsey Meads	53
Chertsey	51
Knowle Green	38
Abbey Mead	35
Thames	28
Shepperton	18
Shepperton Green	18
Laleham	13

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 Worple Road.