Crime and Safety in Church Crookham
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
Church Crookham is the third safest small town in Hampshire, and is the 94th safest overall out of Hampshire's 268 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Church Crookham in 2026 is 27 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares favourably to Hampshire's overall crime rate, coming in 57% lower than the Hampshire rate of 63 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Church Crookham is the 66th safest small town, and the 3,729th safest location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
In January 2024, Church Crookham was the worst small town in Hampshire for theft from the person, with 1 crime reported and a crime rate of 0.09 per 1,000 daytime population. April 2024 was also a bad month for Church Crookham residents, when it was Hampshire's most dangerous small town for vehicle crime, recording 7 crimes at a rate of 0.63 per 1,000 daytime population.
The most common crimes in Church Crookham are violence and sexual offences, with 174 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 16. This is 0.58% higher than 2025's figure of 173 offences and a difference of 0.09 from 2025's crime rate of 16. Church Crookham's least common crime is robbery, with 0 offences recorded in 2026.
Church Crookham 2026 Crime Scorecard
Third Safest
Small Towns, Hampshire
56% lower, regional crime rate
South East
63% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Church Crookham is 56% lower than the South East and 63% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Church Crookham Crime Rate Over Time
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Church Crookham Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Church Crookham represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Church Crookham's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Church Crookham up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Church Crookham's 245 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
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Crime Risk Scores
Church Crookham • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Church Crookham has a crime risk score of 338. This is based on analysis of 245 nearby areas within Church Crookham, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Church Crookham's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Church Crookham, crime risk scores are typically around 338, while in Hampshire they are average 467.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 394 (470 for Hampshire), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 413 (Hampshire 472).
Trends in Crime Risk
Church Crookham
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
No trend could be found in Church Crookham's crime risk scores over the last 10 years, and the trend may well be static.
The five-year trend may be static; no significant trend was identified in Church Crookham's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Church Crookham's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 4.8%, indicating that the risk profile is going down. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Church Crookham
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Church Crookham • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Possession of Weapons offences have a crime rate of 0.36 reports per 1,000 people in Church Crookham, which is 1.24 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 4 crime reports logged by Hampshire Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Hampshire Police recorded 26 reports of Public Order in Church Crookham, resulting in a crime rate of 2.34 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 0.62.
The crime rate for Violence and Sexual Offences is 0.52 times the national average at 16 reports per 1,000. This is from 174 crime reports reported to Hampshire Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Church Crookham
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
No significant increases identified.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Church Crookham
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.59 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.99 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 40% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.29 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 1.29 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 0% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.58 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Church Crookham • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 45 | 4.06 | 0.32 | 16,767 | 7.84 | 0.55 | 115,500 | 10.87 | 0.77 |
| Bicycle Theft | 4 | 0.36 | 1.89 | 1,434 | 0.69 | 0.95 | 7,315 | 0.68 | 0.93 |
| Burglary | 3 | 0.27 | 0.34 | 5,009 | 2.35 | 0.75 | 23,535 | 2.23 | 0.71 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 27 | 2.43 | 0.42 | 10,172 | 4.75 | 0.76 | 58,501 | 5.50 | 0.88 |
| Drugs | 3 | 0.27 | 0.50 | 4,679 | 2.18 | 0.71 | 25,203 | 2.37 | 0.77 |
| Other Crime | 8 | 0.72 | 1.18 | 2,789 | 1.30 | 0.70 | 17,151 | 1.61 | 0.87 |
| Other Theft | 29 | 2.61 | 0.50 | 8,871 | 4.14 | 0.73 | 51,336 | 4.84 | 0.85 |
| Possession of Weapons | 4 | 0.36 | 1.24 | 2,421 | 1.12 | 1.32 | 8,736 | 0.81 | 0.95 |
| Public Order | 26 | 2.34 | 0.62 | 11,772 | 5.49 | 0.95 | 54,745 | 5.15 | 0.89 |
| Robbery | - | - | - | 1,491 | 0.70 | 0.59 | 7,588 | 0.72 | 0.61 |
| Shoplifting | 11 | 0.99 | 0.33 | 12,856 | 5.99 | 0.84 | 72,983 | 6.88 | 0.96 |
| Theft From the Person | - | - | - | 766 | 0.36 | 0.23 | 4,668 | 0.45 | 0.29 |
| Vehicle Crime | 8 | 0.72 | 0.34 | 6,424 | 3.00 | 0.70 | 34,099 | 3.22 | 0.75 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 174 | 15.75 | 0.52 | 66,157 | 30.90 | 1.02 | 286,815 | 26.98 | 0.89 |
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Total Crime by Year
Church Crookham | Hampshire | South East | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 297 | 26.82 | 0.51 | 134,841 | 62.97 | 0.87 | 652,675 | 61.44 | 0.85 |
| 2025 | 411 | 37.11 | 0.59 | 142,154 | 66.71 | 0.90 | 670,274 | 63.35 | 0.86 |
| 2024 | 395 | 35.89 | 0.61 | 143,206 | 67.71 | 0.90 | 690,903 | 65.86 | 0.87 |
| 2023 | 400 | 36.33 | 0.54 | 159,627 | 76.11 | 0.96 | 713,547 | 68.83 | 0.87 |
| 2022 | 328 | 29.66 | 0.49 | 159,505 | 76.75 | 1.00 | 704,444 | 68.58 | 0.89 |
| 2021 | 389 | 35.61 | 0.63 | 132,111 | 63.97 | 0.93 | 625,484 | 61.36 | 0.89 |
| 2020 | 399 | 36.21 | 0.57 | 141,723 | 68.79 | 0.93 | 669,219 | 65.97 | 0.89 |
| 2019 | 353 | 32.19 | 0.51 | 142,619 | 69.41 | 0.91 | 666,505 | 65.82 | 0.86 |
| 2018 | 368 | 34.90 | 0.58 | 146,264 | 71.07 | 1.00 | 644,142 | 63.85 | 0.90 |
| 2017 | 211 | 20.84 | 0.43 | 120,200 | 58.55 | 0.92 | 552,696 | 55.04 | 0.86 |
| 2016 | 71 | 7.07 | 0.52 | 33,278 | 16.23 | 0.85 | 160,273 | 15.99 | 0.84 |
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Church Crookham Compared to Nearby Small Towns
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Small Town | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fawley | 698 | 48.59 | 81% more dangerous |
| Hythe and Dibden | 1,076 | 51.42 | 92% more dangerous |
| Ringwood | 875 | 50.39 | 88% more dangerous |
| Hedge End | 1,215 | 49.81 | 86% more dangerous |
| Petersfield | 885 | 48.01 | 79% more dangerous |
| Romsey | 1,087 | 46.23 | 72% more dangerous |
| Lymington and Pennington | 785 | 45.74 | 71% more dangerous |
| Alton | 1,041 | 44.57 | 66% more dangerous |
| Bramshott and Liphook | 414 | 37.12 | 38% more dangerous |
| Fleet | 1,198 | 39.90 | 49% more dangerous |
| Bishopstoke | 346 | 33.20 | 24% more dangerous |
| Tadley | 401 | 32.67 | 22% more dangerous |
| Yateley | 713 | 34.22 | 28% more dangerous |
| Hook | 389 | 32.16 | 20% more dangerous |
| Chandler's Ford | 931 | 33.07 | 23% more dangerous |
| Church Crookham | 297 | 26.82 | - |
| Fair Oak and Horton Heath | 419 | 30.92 | 15% more dangerous |
| Horndean | 446 | 31.38 | 17% more dangerous |
| Denmead | 189 | 24.79 | 8% safer |
Comparing Church Crookham to the UK's Major Cities
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| City Name | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Church Crookham | 26.82 | - |
| Cardiff | 79.55 | 197% more dangerous |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 82.69 | 208% more dangerous |
| Sheffield | 84.09 | 214% more dangerous |
| Leicester | 97.87 | 265% more dangerous |
| Bristol | 104.64 | 290% more dangerous |
| Birmingham | 105.05 | 292% more dangerous |
| Liverpool | 106.48 | 297% more dangerous |
| Leeds | 107.10 | 299% more dangerous |
| Nottingham | 107.74 | 302% more dangerous |
| Westminster | 125.00 | 366% more dangerous |
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Offences In and Around Church Crookham's Parks & Leisure Spaces
Limited to spaces in Church Crookham that are named and have had crimes recorded within their boundaries in the 12 months to Apr 2026.
| Name | ASB | Drugs | Public Order | Robbery | VSO | All Others |
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| Basingbourne Park | 10 | 1 | 11 | - | 58 | 16 |
| Humphrey Park | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 6 |
| Abercorn Playing Field | 1 | - | 1 | - | 5 | 2 |
| Peter Driver Sports Ground | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 |
| Wakefords Park | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Quetta Park | - | - | - | - | 11 | 4 |
| Church Crookham Allotments | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
Recent Crimes in Church Crookham
The 20 most recent crime reports in Church Crookham.
| Date | Crime Type | Location | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Nepal Gardens | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Nepal Gardens | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Hawkwell | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Newton Drive | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Beaufort Road | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Earlsbourne | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Everest Walk | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Keynes Close | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Leipzig Barracks | |
| April 2026 | Possession of weapons | On or near Polkerris Way | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Haig Lane | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Grenham Court | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Coxmoor Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Humphrey Park | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Vicarage Gardens | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Annes Way | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Oakwood | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Corringway | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Corringway | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Ashley Walk |
Methodology & Data Sources
Church Crookham Crime Report
Data Sources & Processing
Every month, CrimeRate processes crime reports from data.police.uk, the UK's official provider of open crime report data. Each crime report includes anonymised coordinates, most often "snapped" to the middle of the nearest street, or to the nearest major landmark. The reports also include the month and year the crime was reported, as well as the type of crime.
Data releases on data.police.uk happen once a month, with a two-month delay. This means that, for example, crimes reported in Church Crookham during June 2026 will typically become available in August 2026. The latest release is for Apr 2026 and was released in Jun 2026. To provide current and historical crime statistics, CrimeRate processed 61,669,232 crime reports for the latest release.
Church Crookham Data Points
For Church Crookham, CrimeRate uses the geographic boundaries provided by The Office for National Statistics in the December 2023 release of their Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas dataset, using the PARNCP23CD column value E04012054.
Due to the 2021 Census being conducted during a UK-wide Coronavirus lockdown, the daytime population figures released so far cannot be relied on for purposes such as comparing crime rates. Instead, CrimeRate uses Church Crookham's daytime - or "workday" - population of 6,598 from the ONS 2011 Census for calculations throughout the site.
All geographic boundaries use the full resolution - extent of the realm versions where provided to avoid missing crime reports near coastlines and rivers - the banks of the Thames in particular - that would otherwise not be included when using the clipped to the coastline datasets.
Calculating Crime Rates
CrimeRate locates the UK region, county, and town/city/village locality for each crime report, and calculates the crime rate by taking the sum of all crime reports, dividing it by the locality's daytime / "workday" population, and multiplying the result by 1,000 to get the crime rate per 1,000.
Crime Risk Score Calculations
CrimeRate calculates crime counts for local, nearby, and wider areas for every postcode in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The postcodes locations are deduplicated by a process that ensures distinct points are approximately 50 metres apart. This process removes the bias that would otherwise come from counting the same crimes several times in heavily populated areas.
Using a custom algorithm developed in-house, CrimeRate applies a crime severity weighting to each area's crime counts, based on the type of crime reported. This increases or decreases the crime count, or zeroes it out entirely, depending on the crime type. A separate crime severity rate is then calculated, standardised, and scaled to fit the crime risk score range of 1 to 1,000, with 1 being the lowest score, and 1,000 the highest.
Crime risk scores undergo further analysis per town, city, and village plus other areas including police forces and neighbourhoods. CrimeRate uses percentiles to work out the most common range of crime risk scores in each locality. This includes identifying the high and low bounds where approximately 68% of scores fall, and finding the median (50th percentile) for easy reference.
The crime types with a weight of zero are: Anti-Social Behaviour; Bicycle Theft; Other Crime; Other Theft; and Shoplifting. The highest weights to are assigned to Violence & Sexual Offences, and the lowest to Vehicle Crime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Crime in Church Crookham