Study reveals crime rates across Berkshire train stations, ranking danger levels based on foot traffic and incidents.
MailOnline did a study and made a map of UK train stations. The ranking shows the most dangerous stations. It included 2,580 stations.
They looked at foot traffic and crime rates to decide the danger levels. Maidenhead ranked highest, not Reading, even though crime has been rising in Reading.
Windsor & Eton station was ‘unranked,’ as the British Transport Police reported very few crimes there. Violent and sex crimes are at record highs, having doubled over the past decade.
Overall crime levels are up 55% in ten years. Here is a list of Berkshire’s most dangerous stations, which includes crime figures and foot traffic.
Maidenhead had 227 crimes, with a crime rate of 45.6 per million people, and almost five million people used the station. Additionally, Newbury had 56 crimes, resulting in a crime rate of 37.4 per million people, with approximately 1.5 million passengers.
Tilehurst had 13 crimes, which equates to 36.4 crimes per million, and fewer than 400,000 people traveled via Tilehurst. Reading had 505 crimes reported, resulting in a crime rate of 29.9 per million, and the footfall there exceeded sixteen million people.
Reading West reported nine crimes, yielding a crime rate of almost 26 per million people, and under 350,000 passengers used this station. Wargrave only had two crimes reported, giving them a crime rate of 22.5 per million and fewer than 90,000 people used that station.
Twyford had 49 crimes occur there, resulting in a crime rate of 21.9 per million, with approximately two million people using that station. Bracknell saw 35 crimes occur, which equals 21.7 crimes per million people, and sixteen hundred thousand people traveled from Bracknell.
Earley reported eight crimes there, and their total for crime equaled 20.9 crimes per million, with less than 400,000 passengers traveling there. Winnersh Triangle had four crimes take place, which equals 20.1 crimes per million, and under 200,000 people traveled using this station.
Theale had seven crimes occur there, with their reported crime totaling 21.7 per million and just over three hundred thousand people used this station. Ascot reported twenty-two crimes, with incidents coming to around 19.7 crimes per million, as a little over a million passengers used the station.
Slough had 115 crimes reported, which totals about 17.2 crimes per million people, and almost seven million traveled from Slough. Pangbourne had six crimes, giving them a total crime rate of 17.0 per million and just above 350,000 people traveled there.
Wokingham had 28 crimes reported, that’s a total of 16.3 crimes per million, and the station saw just above 1.7 million passengers. Crowthorne only had three crimes reported, with the numbers showing 14.0 crimes per million and two hundred fourteen thousand traveled via this station.
Finally, Winnersh reported one crime which comes to rest at 2.9 per million people, with total passengers using Winnersh totaling 340,896. To reiterate, Windsor and Eton station was unranked, though almost 1.8 million people traveled there.