Crime Statistics for Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey, 2024

Crime statistics for Hook Heath, Woking

There were a total of 31 street level crime incidents in Hook Heath in March 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 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime9
Anti Social Behaviour6
Criminal Damage Arson6
Public Order3
Vehicle Crime2
Shoplifting2
Drugs1
Other Crime1
Other Theft1
All Crime31

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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.

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Maybury (1.96 miles)282
Horsell (1.39 miles)175
Knaphill (1.39 miles)123
Miles Green (1.96 miles)110
Horsell Birch (1.24 miles)92
Cartbridge (1.96 miles)89
St Johns53
Brookwood (1.86 miles)46
Mayford (0.88 miles)44
Hook Heath31

20.1%
of St John's (Woking) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Maybury83
Knaphill51
Miles Green50
Horsell42
Cartbridge39
Horsell Birch28
St Johns18
Mayford18
Brookwood14
Hook Heath9

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.

#WardScore
1Canalside60
2Stoke55
3Hoe Valley54
4Knaphill44
5Mount Hermon43
6Horsell36
7Heathlands34
8St John's32
9Pyrford31
10Worplesdon27
11Goldsworth Park27

Which road in Hook Heath has the highest 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 this marker.

Last updated: March 2024
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