Crime Statistics for Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey, June 2023

There were a total of 52 street level crime incidents in Hook Heath in June 2023. 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 Hook Heath, 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	15
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Public Order	10
Other Theft	6
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	52

Map of street level crime incidents in June 2023

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maybury (1.96 miles)	333
Horsell (1.39 miles)	236
Knaphill (1.39 miles)	158
Horsell Birch (1.24 miles)	123
Miles Green (1.96 miles)	119
Cartbridge (1.96 miles)	104
Hook Heath	52
St Johns	52
Brookwood (1.86 miles)	38
Mayford (0.88 miles)	34

Where are the most violent places near Hook Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maybury	92
Horsell	75
Knaphill	69
Miles Green	63
Horsell Birch	41
Cartbridge	29
Hook Heath	15
St Johns	15
Brookwood	14
Mayford	13

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

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 Hook Heath 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 Hook Heath compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Canalside	60
2	Stoke	55
3	Hoe Valley	54
4	Knaphill	44
5	Mount Hermon	43
6	Horsell	36
7	Heathlands	34
8	St John's	32
9	Pyrford	31
10	Worplesdon	27
11	Goldsworth Park	27

Which road in Hook Heath has the level of crime?

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