Crime Statistics for Christchurch, Newport, City of Newport, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Christchurch in September 2024. There were a total of 564 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 Christchurch, 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	192
Anti Social Behaviour	80
Public Order	74
Criminal Damage Arson	64
Vehicle Crime	38
Other Theft	26
Drugs	22
Other Crime	20
Burglary	20
Shoplifting	12
Possession Of Weapons	10
Robbery	6
All Crime	564

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 Christchurch. 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 Christchurch

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maindee (1.39 miles)	1479
Bishpool (0.62 miles)	764
St Julians (1.24 miles)	667
Liswerry (1.24 miles)	534
Christchurch	522
Beechwood (0.88 miles)	446
Lawrence Hill (0.62 miles)	382
Alway (0.62 miles)	382
Coldra (0.62 miles)	196
Caerleon (0.88 miles)	186

Where are the most violent places near Christchurch?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maindee	468
Bishpool	460
Beechwood	208
St Julians	205
Christchurch	192
Liswerry	153
Lawrence Hill	115
Alway	115
Coldra	78
Caerleon	72

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

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 Christchurch 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 Christchurch compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Christchurch and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Christchurch is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stow Hill	99
2	Liswerry	99
3	Victoria	99
4	Ringland	99
5	St. Julians	98
6	Alway	98
7	Shaftesbury	98
8	Allt-yr-yn	98
9	Beechwood	97
10	Caerleon	97
11	Langstone	96

Which road in Christchurch has the highest level of crime?

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