Crime Statistics for Egham, Runnymede, Surrey, 2024

Crime statistics for Egham, Runnymede

There were a total of 111 street level crime incidents in Egham in January 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 Egham, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime31
Anti Social Behaviour21
Other Theft14
Public Order9
Shoplifting9
Criminal Damage Arson7
Burglary7
Vehicle Crime5
Drugs4
Bicycle Theft2
Robbery1
Other Crime1
All Crime111

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Egham. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Egham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Staines (2.48 miles)300
Knowle Green (2.55 miles)133
Egham111
Englefield Green (0.62 miles)59
Cooper’s Hill (0.88 miles)47
Bishopsgate (1.24 miles)32
Beaumont (1.39 miles)16
Horton (2.56 miles)14
Trumps Green (2.56 miles)12
Colne Brook (2.06 miles)12

25.75%
of Englefield Green East residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Egham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Staines91
Knowle Green51
Egham31
Englefield Green19
Cooper’s Hill13
Bishopsgate11
Horton8
Colne Brook6
Beaumont3
Trumps Green3

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

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 Egham 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 Egham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Egham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Egham is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Staines60
2Englefield Green West58
3Chertsey St Ann's53
4Staines South44
5Egham Town43
6Egham Hythe40
7Thorpe40
8Englefield Green East39
9Old Windsor37
10Virginia Water30
11Riverside and Laleham28

Which road in Egham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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