Crime Statistics for Maidenhall, Ipswich, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Maidenhall in September 2024. There were a total of 109 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 Maidenhall, 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
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Vehicle Crime	9
Public Order	9
Other Theft	8
Other Crime	5
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Shoplifting	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	109

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 Maidenhall. 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 Maidenhall

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ipswich (1.39 miles)	524
Stoke (0.88 miles)	436
Chantry (0.88 miles)	282
California (2.23 miles)	266
Stoke Park	150
Racecourse (1.86 miles)	146
Maidenhall	109
Greenwich (1.24 miles)	107
Belstead (1.39 miles)	26
Blacksmith’s Corner (1.75 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Maidenhall?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ipswich	222
Stoke	213
Chantry	111
California	107
Stoke Park	75
Racecourse	68
Maidenhall	47
Greenwich	42
Belstead	8
Blacksmith’s Corner	0

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

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 Maidenhall 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 Maidenhall compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Westgate	86
2	Alexandra	79
3	Bridge	77
4	Gipping	74
5	Stoke Park	72
6	Holywells	71
7	Gainsborough	61
8	Sprites	60
9	St Margaret's	60
10	Sproughton & Pinewood	57
11	Orwell	32

Which road in Maidenhall has the highest level of crime?

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