Crime Statistics for Tilehurst, Sulham, Berkshire, 2024

There were a total of 106 street level crime incidents in Tilehurst in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	42
Violent Crime	28
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Other Theft	7
Public Order	4
Drugs	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	106

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 Tilehurst. 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 Tilehurst

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Churchend (0.88 miles)	120
Horncastle (0.88 miles)	120
Tilehurst	106
Southcote (1.76 miles)	77
Theale (1.75 miles)	67
Little Heath (0.62 miles)	48
Calcot (1.24 miles)	46
Calcot Row (1.24 miles)	46
Malpas (1.96 miles)	45
Tidmarsh (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Tilehurst?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Churchend	63
Horncastle	63
Tilehurst	28
Southcote	28
Theale	16
Little Heath	16
Calcot	14
Calcot Row	14
Malpas	13
Tidmarsh	0

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

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 Tilehurst 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 Tilehurst compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Tilehurst and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Tilehurst is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Norcot	75
2	Southcote	63
3	Tilehurst	59
4	Kentwood	48
5	Tilehurst South & Holybrook	40
6	Burghfield & Mortimer	31
7	Kidmore End & Whitchurch	23
8	Bradfield	23
9	Tilehurst Birch Copse	17
10	Tilehurst & Purley	11
11	Theale	10

Which road in Tilehurst has the highest level of crime?

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