Crime Statistics for Birch Hill, Easthampstead, Berkshire, 2024

There were a total of 104 street level crime incidents in Birch Hill in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	37
Violent Crime	29
Vehicle Crime	11
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Other Theft	4
Public Order	3
Burglary	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	104

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Harmans Water (1.24 miles)	306
Bullbrook (1.96 miles)	293
Crown Wood (0.62 miles)	185
Birch Hill	104
Great Hollands (1.39 miles)	88
Amen Corner (2.24 miles)	76
Hanworth (0.62 miles)	73
Chavey Down (2.24 miles)	72
Popeswood (2.63 miles)	55
Crowthorne (2.24 miles)	51

Where are the most violent places near Birch Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harmans Water	108
Bullbrook	90
Crown Wood	77
Great Hollands	44
Chavey Down	40
Amen Corner	35
Hanworth	33
Birch Hill	29
Popeswood	19
Crowthorne	19

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

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 Birch Hill 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 Birch Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Birch Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Birch Hill is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Wildridings and Central	50
2	Old Bracknell	41
3	Priestwood and Garth	36
4	Great Hollands South	30
5	Crowthorne	26
6	Harmans Water	25
7	Bullbrook	21
8	Great Hollands North	20
9	Hanworth	17
10	Crown Wood	17
11	Ascot	8

Which road in Birch Hill has the highest level of crime?

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