Crime Statistics for Gaywood, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gaywood in September 2024. There were a total of 748 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gaywood, 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	273
Shoplifting	106
Anti Social Behaviour	94
Criminal Damage Arson	76
Other Theft	48
Public Order	44
Drugs	42
Bicycle Theft	22
Other Crime	13
Vehicle Crime	10
Burglary	8
Possession Of Weapons	6
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	2
All Crime	748

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 Gaywood. 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 Gaywood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gaywood	725
South Wootton (1.39 miles)	151
Fairstead (0.88 miles)	145
North Wootton (2.56 miles)	10
North Runcton (3.17 miles)	8
Fair Green (2.78 miles)	6
Tower End (2.63 miles)	3
Saddle Bow (3.62 miles)	2
Castle Rising (3.1 miles)	2
Bawsey (3.16 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Gaywood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gaywood	273
South Wootton	64
Fairstead	49
North Runcton	4
North Wootton	3
Fair Green	2
Tower End	1
Saddle Bow	1
Bawsey	1
Castle Rising	0

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

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 Gaywood 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 Gaywood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gaywood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Gaywood is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	North Lynn	77
2	St. Margaret's with St. Nicholas	72
3	Gaywood Chase	70
4	Gaywood Clock	68
5	Fairstead	60
6	Springwood	46
7	South & West Lynn	35
8	Gaywood North Bank	25
9	Clenchwarton	8
10	West Winch	8
11	The Woottons	7

Which road in Gaywood has the highest level of crime?

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