Crime and Safety in Chertsey, Surrey
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
Chertsey is among the top 10 most dangerous small towns in Surrey, and is the 38th most dangerous overall out of Surrey's 105 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Chertsey in 2026 is 57 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Surrey's overall crime rate, coming in 10% higher than the Surrey rate of 52 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Chertsey is the 388th most dangerous small town, and the 2,461st most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
In February 2019, Chertsey had the worst crime rate in Surrey for robbery, with 3 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.19 per 1,000 daytime population. And in April 2025, Chertsey was the worst small town in Surrey for robbery, with 2 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.13 per 1,000 daytime population. June 2025 was also a bad month for Chertsey residents, when it was again Surrey's most dangerous small town for robbery, recording 2 crimes at a rate of 0.13 per 1,000 daytime population.
The most common crimes in Chertsey are violence and sexual offences, with 377 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 24. This is 0.80% higher than 2025's figure of 374 offences and a difference of 0.32 from 2025's crime rate of 24. Chertsey's least common crime is theft from the person, with 1 offence recorded in 2026, a decrease of 83% from 2025's figure of 6 crimes.
Chertsey 2026 Crime Scorecard
Top 10 Most Dangerous
Small Towns, Surrey
7% lower, regional crime rate
South East
20% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Chertsey is 7% lower than the South East and 20% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Chertsey Crime Rate Over Time
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Chertsey Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Chertsey 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 Chertsey's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Chertsey up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Chertsey's 333 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 rates don’t happen by themselves; they follow people and patterns. Where crowds gather - near pubs and late-night venues, around the station, by supermarkets and forecourts - incidents naturally concentrate.
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Your report explores these factors in a calm, non-judgemental way, putting the numbers in context and helping you spot what’s typical for places like this.
Crime Risk Scores
Chertsey • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Chertsey has a crime risk score of 517. This is based on analysis of 333 nearby areas within Chertsey, 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 Chertsey's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Chertsey, crime risk scores are typically around 517, while in Surrey they are average 396.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 595 (429 for Surrey), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 672 (Surrey 462).
Trends in Crime Risk
Chertsey
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 Chertsey'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 Chertsey's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Chertsey's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 0.62%, 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
Chertsey
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
Chertsey • 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.
Public Order offences have a crime rate of 6.13 reports per 1,000 people in Chertsey, which is 1.06 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 95 crime reports logged by Surrey Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Surrey Police recorded 7 reports of Possession of Weapons in Chertsey, resulting in a crime rate of 0.43 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.00.
The crime rate for Criminal Damage and Arson is 0.99 times the national average at 6.21 reports per 1,000. This is from 96 crime reports reported to Surrey Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Chertsey
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.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.20 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.79 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 52% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Chertsey
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.57 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 2.14 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 73% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.20 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.20 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.50 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 60% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Chertsey • 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 | 134 | 8.65 | 0.61 | 13,971 | 9.85 | 0.70 | 115,500 | 10.87 | 0.77 |
| Bicycle Theft | 9 | 0.58 | 1.81 | 642 | 0.46 | 0.63 | 7,315 | 0.68 | 0.93 |
| Burglary | 23 | 1.47 | 0.56 | 3,082 | 2.16 | 0.69 | 23,535 | 2.23 | 0.71 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 96 | 6.21 | 0.99 | 6,738 | 4.75 | 0.76 | 58,501 | 5.50 | 0.88 |
| Drugs | 40 | 2.58 | 0.83 | 2,967 | 2.08 | 0.67 | 25,203 | 2.37 | 0.77 |
| Other Crime | 25 | 1.61 | 0.95 | 2,234 | 1.58 | 0.85 | 17,151 | 1.61 | 0.87 |
| Other Theft | 68 | 4.40 | 0.77 | 6,162 | 4.32 | 0.76 | 51,336 | 4.84 | 0.85 |
| Possession of Weapons | 7 | 0.43 | 1.00 | 814 | 0.57 | 0.67 | 8,736 | 0.81 | 0.95 |
| Public Order | 95 | 6.13 | 1.06 | 8,131 | 5.74 | 0.99 | 54,745 | 5.15 | 0.89 |
| Robbery | 8 | 0.51 | 0.84 | 684 | 0.50 | 0.42 | 7,588 | 0.72 | 0.61 |
| Shoplifting | 79 | 5.12 | 0.72 | 6,422 | 4.53 | 0.64 | 72,983 | 6.88 | 0.96 |
| Theft From the Person | 1 | 0.06 | 0.43 | 489 | 0.36 | 0.23 | 4,668 | 0.45 | 0.29 |
| Vehicle Crime | 61 | 3.96 | 0.92 | 4,369 | 3.09 | 0.72 | 34,099 | 3.22 | 0.75 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 377 | 24.34 | 0.80 | 31,198 | 21.96 | 0.72 | 286,815 | 26.98 | 0.89 |
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Total Crime by Year
Chertsey | Surrey | South East | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 889 | 57.40 | 0.84 | 73,932 | 52.10 | 0.72 | 652,675 | 61.44 | 0.85 |
| 2025 | 953 | 60.27 | 0.84 | 71,583 | 50.57 | 0.68 | 670,274 | 63.35 | 0.86 |
| 2024 | 997 | 62.54 | 0.89 | 73,377 | 52.18 | 0.69 | 690,903 | 65.86 | 0.87 |
| 2023 | 937 | 58.24 | 0.78 | 69,251 | 49.67 | 0.63 | 713,547 | 68.83 | 0.87 |
| 2022 | 1,091 | 67.88 | 0.93 | 69,706 | 50.46 | 0.66 | 704,444 | 68.58 | 0.89 |
| 2021 | 1,041 | 66.33 | 0.99 | 66,966 | 48.76 | 0.71 | 625,484 | 61.36 | 0.89 |
| 2020 | 1,074 | 68.96 | 0.96 | 75,021 | 54.65 | 0.74 | 669,219 | 65.97 | 0.89 |
| 2019 | 939 | 59.70 | 0.82 | 74,162 | 54.29 | 0.71 | 666,505 | 65.82 | 0.86 |
| 2018 | 919 | 57.37 | 0.85 | 69,466 | 50.83 | 0.71 | 644,142 | 63.85 | 0.90 |
| 2017 | 769 | 47.81 | 0.81 | 64,729 | 47.38 | 0.74 | 552,696 | 55.04 | 0.86 |
| 2016 | 290 | 18.05 | 0.99 | 19,127 | 13.99 | 0.73 | 160,273 | 15.99 | 0.84 |
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Chertsey Compared to Nearby Small Towns
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Small Town | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staines-upon-Thames | 2,537 | 93.45 | 63% more dangerous |
| Caterham Valley | 812 | 79.32 | 38% more dangerous |
| Stanwell | 967 | 78.60 | 37% more dangerous |
| Addlestone | 1,133 | 69.29 | 21% more dangerous |
| Chertsey | 889 | 57.40 | - |
| Dorking | 1,151 | 56.19 | 2.1% safer |
| Caterham-on-the-Hill | 724 | 50.95 | 11% safer |
| Banstead | 398 | 43.99 | 23% safer |
| Warlingham | 365 | 42.25 | 26% safer |
| Oxted | 585 | 44.94 | 22% safer |
| Cobham | 792 | 44.41 | 23% safer |
| Worplesdon | 435 | 40.22 | 30% safer |
| Windlesham | 833 | 43.22 | 25% safer |
| Ash | 858 | 42.00 | 27% safer |
| Frimley | 766 | 40.56 | 29% safer |
| Haslemere | 755 | 40.75 | 29% safer |
| Witley | 312 | 36.38 | 37% safer |
| Byfleet | 791 | 39.70 | 31% safer |
| Cranleigh | 512 | 35.40 | 38% safer |
| Reigate | 1,150 | 37.68 | 34% safer |
Comparing Chertsey to the UK's Major Cities
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| City Name | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Chertsey | 57.40 | - |
| Cardiff | 79.55 | 39% more dangerous |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 82.69 | 44% more dangerous |
| Sheffield | 84.09 | 46% more dangerous |
| Leicester | 97.87 | 71% more dangerous |
| Bristol | 104.64 | 82% more dangerous |
| Birmingham | 105.05 | 83% more dangerous |
| Liverpool | 106.48 | 86% more dangerous |
| Leeds | 107.10 | 87% more dangerous |
| Nottingham | 107.74 | 88% more dangerous |
| Westminster | 125.00 | 118% more dangerous |
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Offences In and Around Chertsey's Parks & Leisure Spaces
Limited to spaces in Chertsey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey Rangers Football Club | 4 | - | 3 | - | 19 | 3 |
| Chertsey Meads | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | 4 |
| St Anns Road Allotments | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Barratt Homes | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 1 |
| The Orchard Gardens | 7 | 2 | 4 | - | 10 | 5 |
| Chertsey Cricket Club | 2 | - | 2 | - | 8 | 2 |
| Gogmore Farm Park | 20 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 39 | 68 |
| Chertsey Cemetery | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| Staines Lane Recreation Ground | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
Recent Crimes in Chertsey
The 20 most recent crime reports in Chertsey.
| Date | Crime Type | Location | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Cowley Avenue | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Free Prae Road | |
| April 2026 | Bicycle theft | On or near Riversdell Close | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Curfew Bell Road | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Chilsey Green Road | |
| April 2026 | Drugs | On or near Fairfields | |
| April 2026 | Other crime | On or near Pyrcroft Road | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Highcross Place | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Springfields Close | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Springfields Close | |
| April 2026 | Robbery | On or near Eastworth Road | |
| April 2026 | Shoplifting | On or near Foundry Court | |
| April 2026 | Vehicle crime | On or near Herrings Lane | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Springfields Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Chilsey Green Road | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Chertsey Road | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Free Prae Road | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Free Prae Road | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Chertsey Road | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Foundry Court |
Methodology & Data Sources
Chertsey 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 Chertsey 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.
Chertsey Data Points
For Chertsey, CrimeRate uses the geographic boundaries provided by The Office for National Statistics in the December 2022 release of their Built Up Areas dataset, using the BUA22CD column value E63005194.
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 Chertsey's daytime - or "workday" - population of 12,900 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 Chertsey