Crime Statistics for Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, 2024

Is Walton-on-Thames rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 164 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 Walton-on-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	40
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Theft	16
Drugs	11
Shoplifting	10
Public Order	10
Burglary	10
Vehicle Crime	9
Bicycle Theft	5
Other Crime	3
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	164

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 Walton-on-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 Walton-on-Thames

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walton-on-Thames	164
Rydens (0.88 miles)	163
Ashley Park (0.62 miles)	151
Field Common (1.24 miles)	115
Hersham (1.39 miles)	98
Upper Halliford (1.39 miles)	92
Lower Halliford (1.39 miles)	79
Shepperton Green (1.96 miles)	67
Lower Green (1.86 miles)	66
Oatlands Park (1.39 miles)	57

Where are the most violent places near Walton-on-Thames?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rydens	48
Walton-on-Thames	40
Field Common	39
Ashley Park	32
Upper Halliford	28
Hersham	26
Lower Halliford	26
Shepperton Green	21
Lower Green	20
Oatlands Park	14

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Walton-on-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 Walton-on-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 Walton-on-Thames compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Halliford and Sunbury West	61
2	Walton North	60
3	Addlestone South	56
4	Walton Central	55
5	Esher	51
6	Walton South	48
7	Weybridge Riverside	47
8	Shepperton Town	42
9	Hersham Village	41
10	Sunbury East	38
11	Oatlands and Burwood Park	21

Which road in Walton-on-Thames has the highest level of crime?

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