Crime Statistics for Foudry Brook, Reading, Berkshire, May 2022

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Foudry Brook using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so May 2022 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 362 street level crime incidents in Foudry Brook in May 2022. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Foudry Brook, 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	130
Public Order	39
Anti Social Behaviour	33
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Vehicle Crime	24
Other Theft	23
Shoplifting	18
Bicycle Theft	15
Burglary	15
Other Crime	12
Drugs	8
Theft From The Person	7
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	362

Map of street level crime incidents in May 2022

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Reading (0.87 miles)	857
Lower Caversham (1.59 miles)	779
Coley (0.26 miles)	598
Caversham (2.11 miles)	420
Foudry Brook	362
Caversham Heights (2.22 miles)	226
Earley (2.45 miles)	137
Southcote (1.96 miles)	92
Great Lea Common (2.24 miles)	54
Pingewood (2.07 miles)	3

Most violent places near Foudry Brook

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Reading	286
Lower Caversham	249
Coley	193
Foudry Brook	130
Caversham	128
Caversham Heights	76
Earley	63
Southcote	29
Great Lea Common	23
Pingewood	2