Crime Statistics for Ifield, Crawley, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ifield in September 2024. There were a total of 257 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 Ifield, 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	94
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Shoplifting	32
Public Order	21
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Vehicle Crime	15
Burglary	11
Other Theft	8
Drugs	7
Bicycle Theft	5
Other Crime	4
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	257

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 Ifield. 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 Ifield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Langley Green (0.88 miles)	652
Crawley (1.39 miles)	619
Southgate (0.88 miles)	489
Tilgate (1.76 miles)	451
Manor Royal (0.88 miles)	375
Gossops Green (0.62 miles)	346
Ifield	257
Bewbush (1.39 miles)	150
Ifield Green (0.62 miles)	141
Mole (1.86 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Ifield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crawley	265
Langley Green	223
Gossops Green	215
Southgate	171
Tilgate	157
Manor Royal	123
Ifield	94
Bewbush	63
Ifield Green	44
Mole	0

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

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 Ifield 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 Ifield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ifield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ifield is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Southgate	69
2	Broadfield	66
3	Northgate & West Green	66
4	Tilgate	65
5	Three Bridges	59
6	Bewbush & North Broadfield	57
7	Gossops Green & North East Broadfield	56
8	Ifield	47
9	Furnace Green	46
10	Langley Green & Tushmore	44
11	Colgate & Rusper	28

Which road in Ifield has the highest level of crime?

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