Crime Statistics for Adgestone, Sandown, Isle of Wight, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Adgestone in September 2024. There were a total of 124 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 Adgestone, 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	54
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Drugs	10
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Other Theft	8
Shoplifting	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	4
Other Crime	3
Public Order	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	124

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sandown (0.62 miles)	318
Lake (1.39 miles)	143
Adgestone	124
Shanklin (2.56 miles)	82
Landguard Manor (2.24 miles)	62
Morton (0.88 miles)	62
Newchurch (2.48 miles)	7
Alverstone (1.24 miles)	6
Apse Heath (2.24 miles)	5
Ashey (2.78 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Adgestone?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sandown	109
Landguard Manor	63
Lake	57
Adgestone	54
Shanklin	43
Morton	24
Alverstone	4
Apse Heath	4
Newchurch	1
Ashey	0

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

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 Adgestone 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 Adgestone compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Adgestone and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Adgestone is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Sandown North	72
2	Sandown South	71
3	Shanklin South	57
4	Ryde South	56
5	Shanklin Central	50
6	Lake North	49
7	Havenstreet, Ashey and Haylands	48
8	Ryde West	47
9	Lake South	43
10	Godshill and Wroxall	23
11	Brading, St Helens and Bembridge	21

Which road in Adgestone has the highest level of crime?

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