Crime Statistics for Harleston, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harleston in August 2024. There were no crime incidents in in this areas this month.

Crime CategoryIncidents
All Crime0

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ward Green (2.63 miles)27
Dagworth (1.96 miles)12
Great Finborough (1.86 miles)2
Rattlesden (2.55 miles)1
Base Green (1.86 miles)1
Buxhall Fen Street (0.88 miles)1
Harleston0
Shelland (0.62 miles)0
Borley Green (1.24 miles)0
Clopton Green (2.48 miles)0

5.81%
of Rattlesden residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Harleston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ward Green8
Dagworth6
Great Finborough2
Rattlesden0
Base Green0
Buxhall Fen Street0
Harleston0
Shelland0
Borley Green0
Clopton Green0

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

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 Harleston 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 Harleston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1St Peter's65
2Combs Ford51
3Stow Thorney46
4Chilton41
5Haughley, Stowupland & Wetherden29
6Onehouse25
7Battisford & Ringshall19
8Needham Market19
9Thurston15
10Elmswell & Woolpit15
11Rattlesden11

Which road in Harleston has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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