Crime Statistics for North Town, Maidenhead, Berkshire, 2024

Crime statistics for North Town, Maidenhead

There were a total of 218 street level crime incidents in North Town in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in North Town, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime64
Shoplifting28
Vehicle Crime24
Public Order20
Drugs19
Criminal Damage Arson15
Other Theft13
Theft From The Person8
Burglary7
Other Crime6
Anti Social Behaviour6
Possession Of Weapons4
Bicycle Theft4
All Crime218

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes North Town. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 North Town

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

LocationCrime Incidents
North Town218
Fishery (1.39 miles)179
Maidenhead (0.88 miles)94
Furze Platt (0.62 miles)79
Boyn Hill (1.39 miles)65
Tittle Row (1.75 miles)53
Cookham Rise (1.24 miles)39
Maidenhead Court (1.39 miles)24
Pinkneys Green (1.86 miles)7
Cookham Dean (1.75 miles)2

21.45%
of Furze Platt residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near North Town?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
North Town64
Fishery52
Maidenhead29
Furze Platt24
Boyn Hill23
Tittle Row23
Cookham Rise11
Maidenhead Court10
Pinkneys Green2
Cookham Dean0

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

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 North Town 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 North Town compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Burnham Church & Beeches63
2Oldfield41
3St Mary's40
4Belmont29
5Bisham & Cookham27
6Riverside23
7Boyn Hill22
8Marlow North and West20
9Cox Green18
10Furze Platt17
11Pinkneys Green15

Which road in North Town has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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