Crime Statistics for Colthrop, Crookham Park, Berkshire, 2024

There were a total of 35 street level crime incidents in Colthrop in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Colthrop, 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	18
Other Theft	4
Public Order	4
Other Crime	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Burglary	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	35

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Thatcham (1.39 miles)	118
Turner’s Green (1.24 miles)	49
Cold Ash (2.24 miles)	47
Colthrop	35
Kennet and Avon Canal (0.2 miles)	31
Bury’s Bank (2.56 miles)	25
Hopgoods Green (1.86 miles)	7
Upper Bucklebury (1.39 miles)	6
Crookham (1.39 miles)	2
Miles’s Green (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Colthrop?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Thatcham	44
Cold Ash	25
Colthrop	18
Turner’s Green	16
Kennet and Avon Canal	15
Bury’s Bank	8
Hopgoods Green	3
Upper Bucklebury	3
Crookham	1
Miles’s Green	1

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

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 Colthrop 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 Colthrop compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Colthrop and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Colthrop is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newbury Central	44
2	Newbury Greenham	41
3	Newbury Clay Hill	36
4	Thatcham North East	27
5	Aldermaston	26
6	Newbury Speen	23
7	Chieveley & Cold Ash	20
8	Thatcham Central	20
9	Thatcham Colthrop	20
10	Thatcham West	17
11	Bucklebury	11

Which road in Colthrop has the highest level of crime?

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