Crime Statistics for Downley, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 2025

Is Downley rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 167 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Downley, 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	57
Shoplifting	28
Other Theft	20
Vehicle Crime	18
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Burglary	5
Drugs	4
Public Order	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	167

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Downley. 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 Downley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Terriers (1.96 miles)	348
Downley	158
Four Ashes (1.86 miles)	98
Sands (1.39 miles)	81
Cressex (2.48 miles)	65
Cryers Hill (1.96 miles)	16
Towerage (1.75 miles)	11
Speen (2.48 miles)	2
Lower North Dean (1.96 miles)	2
Walter’s Ash (1.86 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Downley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Terriers	143
Downley	57
Four Ashes	39
Sands	33
Cressex	23
Towerage	7
Cryers Hill	6
Speen	0
Lower North Dean	0
Walter’s Ash	0

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

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 Downley 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 Downley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Downley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Downley is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Disraeli	48
2	Abbey	43
3	Oakridge and Castlefield	43
4	Totteridge	42
5	Terriers and Amersham Hill	42
6	Sands	32
7	Chiltern Rise	25
8	Booker and Cressex	25
9	Downley and Plomer Hill	21
10	Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens	2
11	Greater Hughenden	2

Which road in Downley has the highest level of crime?

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