Crime Statistics for Hellesdon, Broadland, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hellesdon in August 2024. There were a total of 152 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 Hellesdon, 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	68
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Public Order	16
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Shoplifting	12
Other Crime	4
Other Theft	4
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	152

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 Hellesdon. 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 Hellesdon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Catton (2.24 miles)	754
New Sprowston (1.96 miles)	327
Mile Cross (1.39 miles)	302
New Costessey (1.75 miles)	172
Old Catton (1.86 miles)	151
Hellesdon	143
Bunker’s Hill (2.24 miles)	131
Costessey (1.86 miles)	42
Drayton (1.39 miles)	13
Horsham St Faith (1.96 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Hellesdon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Catton	282
New Sprowston	116
Mile Cross	103
New Costessey	77
Hellesdon	68
Old Catton	61
Bunker’s Hill	50
Costessey	47
Drayton	9
Horsham St Faith	2

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

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 Hellesdon 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 Hellesdon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Mile Cross	83
2	Wensum	76
3	University	65
4	Bowthorpe	61
5	New Costessey	28
6	Hellesdon South East	27
7	Hellesdon North West	17
8	Horsford and Felthorpe	9
9	Drayton South	9
10	Drayton North	3
11	Taverham South	1

Which road in Hellesdon has the highest level of crime?

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