Crime Statistics for Lower Earley, Shinfield, Berkshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Lower Earley, Shinfield

There were a total of 86 street level crime incidents in Lower Earley in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lower Earley, 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 Crime39
Drugs11
Criminal Damage Arson7
Other Theft7
Public Order5
Shoplifting5
Vehicle Crime4
Burglary3
Anti Social Behaviour2
Theft From The Person1
Other Crime1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime86

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 Lower Earley. 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 Lower Earley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Foudry Brook (2.61 miles)338
Earley (0.62 miles)147
Lower Earley86
Shinfield (1.75 miles)57
Emmbrook (2.56 miles)44
Langley Common (2.56 miles)29
Carter’s Hill (0.88 miles)17
Arborfield Cross (1.96 miles)13
Barkham (2.63 miles)9
Arborfield (1.86 miles)5

26.98%
of Hawkedon residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Earley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Foudry Brook105
Earley53
Lower Earley39
Shinfield30
Emmbrook18
Langley Common8
Carter’s Hill8
Arborfield Cross1
Barkham1
Arborfield1

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

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 Lower Earley 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 Lower Earley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Earley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Lower Earley have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Whitley.

#WardScore
1Whitley62
2Church61
3Park45
4Shinfield North33
5Arborfield25
6South Lake21
7Loddon18
8Hillside13
9Coronation11
10Maiden Erlegh8
11Hawkedon7

Which road in Lower Earley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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