Crime Statistics for Sheepdrove, Lambourn, Berkshire, 2024

There were a total of 8 street level crime incidents in Sheepdrove 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 Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sheepdrove, 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	4
Other Crime	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Burglary	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	8

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 Sheepdrove. 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 Sheepdrove

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lambourn Woodlands (2.78 miles)	8
Sheepdrove	8
Childrey (5.31 miles)	3
Knighton (5.55 miles)	3
Sparsholt (5.01 miles)	1
Shefford Woodlands (4.17 miles)	0
Brightwalton Green (5.61 miles)	0
Southend (5.61 miles)	0
Great Shefford (3.97 miles)	0
Aldbourne (5 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Sheepdrove?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sheepdrove	4
Lambourn Woodlands	2
Knighton	1
Childrey	0
Sparsholt	0
Shefford Woodlands	0
Brightwalton Green	0
Southend	0
Great Shefford	0
Aldbourne	0

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

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 Sheepdrove 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 Sheepdrove compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Lambourn	46
2	Covingham and Dorcan	45
3	Wantage Charlton	35
4	Ridgeway	30
5	Wantage & Grove Brook	24
6	Grove North	19
7	Burbage and the Bedwyns	14
8	Downlands	13
9	Ridgeway	12
10	Aldbourne and Ramsbury	10
11	Stanford	9

Which road in Sheepdrove has the highest level of crime?

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