Crime Statistics for Burpham, Guildford, Surrey, 2024

There were a total of 77 street level crime incidents in Burpham 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 Burpham, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Vehicle Crime	8
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Shoplifting	7
Other Theft	7
Burglary	5
Other Crime	3
Drugs	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	77

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 Burpham. 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 Burpham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bellfields (1.39 miles)	550
Abbotswood (0.88 miles)	463
Stoughton (1.96 miles)	269
Jacobs Well (1.24 miles)	222
Rydeshill (2.55 miles)	151
Burpham	77
Cartbridge (2.48 miles)	69
Bushy Hill (0.88 miles)	46
Newlands Corner (2.63 miles)	15
Burntcommon (1.76 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Burpham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bellfields	193
Abbotswood	143
Stoughton	117
Jacobs Well	93
Rydeshill	65
Cartbridge	25
Burpham	20
Bushy Hill	12
Burntcommon	7
Newlands Corner	4

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

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 Burpham 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 Burpham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Friary and St Nicolas	66
2	Stoke	55
3	Westborough	50
4	Holy Trinity	34
5	Worplesdon	27
6	Christchurch	25
7	Burpham	25
8	Stoughton	24
9	Merrow	13
10	Shalford	10
11	Onslow	8

Which road in Burpham has the highest level of crime?

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