Crime Statistics for Pondtail, Hart, Hampshire, 2024

There were a total of 81 street level crime incidents in Pondtail in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pondtail, 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
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Vehicle Crime	12
Shoplifting	9
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	6
Drugs	4
Other Theft	3
Burglary	3
Theft From The Person	3
Other Crime	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	81

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 Pondtail. 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 Pondtail

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Montgomery Lines (3.1 miles)	227
Fox Lane (2.63 miles)	136
South Farnborough (3.1 miles)	122
Farnborough (3.1 miles)	122
Pondtail	81
Rafborough (1.96 miles)	80
Church Crookham (1.39 miles)	60
Southwood (1.39 miles)	41
Rotten Green (1.96 miles)	39
Crookham Village (2.24 miles)	18

Where are the most violent places near Pondtail?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Montgomery Lines	73
Fox Lane	62
South Farnborough	42
Farnborough	42
Rafborough	28
Church Crookham	28
Pondtail	19
Rotten Green	14
Crookham Village	10
Southwood	9

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

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 Pondtail 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 Pondtail compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Empress	54
2	Rowhill	52
3	Cove and Southwood	52
4	Hartley Wintney	47
5	St John's	41
6	Blackwater and Hawley	34
7	Fleet West	29
8	Fleet Central	29
9	Crookham West and Ewshot	18
10	Fleet East	13
11	Crookham East	11

Which road in Pondtail has the highest level of crime?

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