Crime Statistics for Horsell Birch, Woking, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Horsell Birch in July 2024. There were a total of 95 incidents. 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 Horsell Birch, 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 Crime41
Anti Social Behaviour20
Public Order11
Shoplifting7
Criminal Damage Arson5
Drugs4
Other Theft3
Vehicle Crime2
Bicycle Theft1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime95

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Horsell (0.62 miles)194
Knaphill (1.39 miles)126
Miles Green (1.96 miles)114
Horsell Birch95
Bisley (1.86 miles)80
Castle Green (1.39 miles)65
St Johns (1.24 miles)41
Hook Heath (1.24 miles)41
Mimbridge (1.24 miles)19
Chobham (1.39 miles)12

17.79%
of Horsell residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Horsell Birch?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Horsell55
Knaphill49
Miles Green47
Horsell Birch41
Bisley20
St Johns16
Hook Heath16
Castle Green13
Mimbridge7
Chobham4

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

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 Horsell Birch 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 Horsell Birch compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Horsell Birch and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Horsell Birch is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Canalside60
2Hoe Valley54
3Knaphill44
4Mount Hermon43
5Longcross, Lyne & Chertsey South43
6Horsell36
7Windlesham & Chobham34
8Heathlands34
9St John's32
10Pyrford31
11Goldsworth Park27

Which road in Horsell Birch has the highest level of crime?

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

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