Crime Statistics for Costessey, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Costessey in September 2024. There were a total of 82 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Costessey, 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	47
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Theft	11
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Other Crime	4
Drugs	4
All Crime	82

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 Costessey. 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 Costessey

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mile Cross (2.77 miles)	277
New Costessey (1.39 miles)	151
Bowthorpe (1.86 miles)	146
Hellesdon (1.86 miles)	143
Bunker’s Hill (1.96 miles)	131
Costessey Park (0.88 miles)	76
Costessey	42
Taverham (1.39 miles)	19
Drayton (0.88 miles)	13
Freeland Corner (2.56 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Costessey?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bowthorpe	132
Mile Cross	94
Hellesdon	66
New Costessey	57
Bunker’s Hill	50
Costessey	47
Costessey Park	28
Taverham	9
Drayton	9
Freeland Corner	7

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

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 Costessey 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 Costessey compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bowthorpe	61
2	Old Costessey	34
3	New Costessey	28
4	Hellesdon South East	27
5	Hellesdon North West	17
6	Hethersett	16
7	Horsford and Felthorpe	9
8	Drayton South	9
9	Taverham North	4
10	Drayton North	3
11	Taverham South	1

Which road in Costessey has the highest level of crime?

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