Crime Statistics for Long Ditton, Elmbridge, Surrey, 2024

There were a total of 76 street level crime incidents in Long Ditton 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 Long Ditton, 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	19
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Burglary	14
Vehicle Crime	9
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Other Theft	5
Public Order	3
Shoplifting	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	76

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 Long Ditton. 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 Long Ditton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Giggshill	76
Long Ditton	76
Thames Ditton (0.88 miles)	76
Lower Green (1.86 miles)	57
Esher (1.75 miles)	45
Tolworth (1.96 miles)	33
Southborough (1.24 miles)	20
Barwell (1.96 miles)	8
Hook (1.75 miles)	4
Berrylands (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Long Ditton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Giggshill	19
Long Ditton	19
Thames Ditton	19
Lower Green	18
Tolworth	18
Esher	11
Barwell	5
Hook	3
Southborough	2
Berrylands	0

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

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 Long Ditton 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 Long Ditton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Long Ditton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Long Ditton is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Esher	51
2	Molesey East	48
3	Hampton	43
4	Hinchley Wood and Weston Green	39
5	Long Ditton	38
6	Surbiton Hill	37
7	Chessington North and Hook	35
8	Thames Ditton	30
9	St Mark's	28
10	Berrylands	25
11	Claygate	17

Which road in Long Ditton has the highest level of crime?

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