Crime Statistics for Dowlesgreen, Wokingham, Berkshire, 2024

There were a total of 153 street level crime incidents in Dowlesgreen 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 Dowlesgreen, 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	54
Other Theft	23
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Shoplifting	12
Burglary	9
Public Order	7
Vehicle Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	1
Other Crime	1
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	153

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 Dowlesgreen. 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 Dowlesgreen

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dowlesgreen	153
Matthewsgreen (0.62 miles)	130
Amen Corner (1.96 miles)	67
Popeswood (1.86 miles)	55
Emmbrook (1.24 miles)	46
Holme Green (1.39 miles)	22
Gardeners Green (1.96 miles)	15
Honey Hill (1.96 miles)	15
Binfield (2.24 miles)	12
Barkham (2.24 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Dowlesgreen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dowlesgreen	54
Matthewsgreen	43
Amen Corner	28
Popeswood	19
Emmbrook	14
Holme Green	14
Gardeners Green	13
Honey Hill	13
Binfield	7
Barkham	6

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

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 Dowlesgreen 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 Dowlesgreen compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Wescott	35
2	Great Hollands South	30
3	Norreys	30
4	Arborfield	25
5	Emmbrook	22
6	Finchampstead South	21
7	Great Hollands North	20
8	Winnersh	14
9	Evendons	4
10	Finchampstead North	3
11	Barkham	2

Which road in Dowlesgreen has the highest level of crime?

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