Crime Statistics for Barham, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barham in September 2024. There were a total of 5 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 Barham, 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	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Public Order	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	5

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 Barham. 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 Barham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Akenham (1.86 miles)	182
Castle Hill (2.56 miles)	131
Great Blakenham (1.39 miles)	13
The Common (2.24 miles)	11
Barham	5
Coddenham Green (3.1 miles)	4
Coddenham (1.96 miles)	1
Hemingstone (1.39 miles)	1
Gosbeck (2.56 miles)	1
Henley (0.62 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Barham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Akenham	142
Castle Hill	52
Great Blakenham	7
Coddenham Green	4
Barham	2
The Common	1
Coddenham	1
Hemingstone	1
Gosbeck	1
Henley	1

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

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 Barham 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 Barham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Barham have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Westgate.

#	Ward	Score
1	Westgate	86
2	Whitton	76
3	Gipping	74
4	Whitehouse	69
5	St Margaret's	60
6	Sproughton & Pinewood	57
7	Castle Hill	48
8	Rushmere	42
9	Bramford	39
10	Blakenham	27
11	Claydon & Barham	24

Which road in Barham has the highest level of crime?

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