Crime Statistics for Popeswood, Binfield, Berkshire, 2024

There were a total of 55 street level crime incidents in Popeswood in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Popeswood, 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	19
Vehicle Crime	11
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Other Theft	4
Shoplifting	3
Other Crime	1
Theft From The Person	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	55

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 Popeswood. 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 Popeswood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Harmans Water (1.96 miles)	306
Crown Wood (2.24 miles)	185
Dowlesgreen (1.86 miles)	153
Newell Green (2.24 miles)	136
Cabbage Hill (1.75 miles)	113
Great Hollands (1.39 miles)	88
Amen Corner (0.62 miles)	67
Popeswood	55
Holme Green (1.75 miles)	22
Binfield (1.24 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Popeswood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harmans Water	108
Crown Wood	77
Dowlesgreen	54
Great Hollands	44
Newell Green	34
Cabbage Hill	31
Amen Corner	28
Popeswood	19
Holme Green	14
Binfield	7

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

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 Popeswood 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 Popeswood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Wildridings and Central	50
2	Old Bracknell	41
3	Priestwood and Garth	36
4	Wescott	35
5	Great Hollands South	30
6	Norreys	30
7	Crowthorne	26
8	Harmans Water	25
9	Bullbrook	21
10	Great Hollands North	20
11	Warfield Harvest Ride	2

Which road in Popeswood has the highest level of crime?

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