Crime Statistics for Hammer Bottom, Chichester, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hammer Bottom in September 2024. There were a total of 5 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	2
Violent Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	5

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 Hammer Bottom. 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 Hammer Bottom

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cold Ash Hill (1.24 miles)	34
Liphook (1.39 miles)	29
Haslemere (1.86 miles)	27
Shottermill (1.24 miles)	25
Camelsdale (1.24 miles)	25
Hammer (0.62 miles)	22
Critchmere (1.39 miles)	21
Nutcombe (1.75 miles)	16
Grayshott (1.96 miles)	13
Hammer Bottom	5

Where are the most violent places near Hammer Bottom?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Haslemere	16
Hammer	16
Shottermill	13
Camelsdale	13
Cold Ash Hill	12
Liphook	11
Critchmere	11
Grayshott	8
Nutcombe	6
Hammer Bottom	2

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

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 Hammer Bottom 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 Hammer Bottom compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hammer Bottom and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hammer Bottom is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Whitehill Castle	72
2	Whitehill Hogmoor & Greatham	45
3	Bramshott & Liphook	36
4	Headley	31
5	Lindford	30
6	Chiddingfold and Dunsfold	20
7	Haslemere Critchmere and Shottermill	18
8	Haslemere East and Grayswood	17
9	Easebourne	15
10	Hindhead	7
11	Grayshott	6

Which road in Hammer Bottom has the highest level of crime?

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