Crime Statistics for Great Lea Common, Mereoak Park, Berkshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Great Lea Common, Mereoak Park

There were a total of 31 street level crime incidents in Great Lea Common in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Great Lea Common, 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 Crime12
Public Order6
Criminal Damage Arson4
Other Theft4
Vehicle Crime4
Other Crime1
All Crime31

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 Great Lea Common. 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 Great Lea Common

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Coley (2.49 miles)483
Foudry Brook (2.24 miles)308
Shinfield (1.24 miles)56
Ryeish Green (0.88 miles)50
Great Lea Common31
Spencers Wood (1.24 miles)16
Pingewood (1.39 miles)8
Arborfield (2.56 miles)7
Grazeley Green (2.55 miles)6
Grazeley (1.75 miles)1

21.34%
of Shinfield South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Lea Common?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Coley148
Foudry Brook96
Shinfield15
Ryeish Green13
Great Lea Common12
Spencers Wood5
Pingewood4
Arborfield3
Grazeley Green3
Grazeley1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Great Lea Common?

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 Great Lea Common 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 Great Lea Common compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Southcote63
2Whitley62
3Katesgrove61
4Church61
5Minster58
6Shinfield North33
7Burghfield & Mortimer31
8Shinfield South26
9Swallowfield24
10Hillside13
11Maiden Erlegh8

Which road in Great Lea Common has the highest level of crime?

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

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