Crime Statistics for Mile Cross, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Mile Cross in September 2024. There were a total of 277 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 Mile Cross, 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
Shoplifting	44
Anti Social Behaviour	39
Public Order	24
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Vehicle Crime	13
Burglary	11
Drugs	10
Other Theft	7
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	1
All Crime	277

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 Mile Cross. 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 Mile Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Norwich (1.75 miles)	840
New Catton (1.24 miles)	674
New Sprowston (1.39 miles)	288
Earlham (1.75 miles)	288
Mile Cross	277
Sprowston (1.96 miles)	182
Old Catton (1.75 miles)	159
New Costessey (1.86 miles)	151
Hellesdon (1.39 miles)	143
Bunker’s Hill (1.96 miles)	131

Where are the most violent places near Mile Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Norwich	257
Earlham	244
New Catton	238
New Sprowston	122
Mile Cross	94
Sprowston	67
Hellesdon	66
Old Catton	63
New Costessey	57
Bunker’s Hill	50

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

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 Mile Cross 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 Mile Cross compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Mile Cross and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Mile Cross have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Hellesdon North West.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mile Cross	83
2	Mancroft	81
3	Wensum	76
4	Sewell	68
5	University	65
6	Bowthorpe	61
7	Nelson	46
8	New Costessey	28
9	Hellesdon South East	27
10	Eaton	24
11	Hellesdon North West	17

Which road in Mile Cross has the highest level of crime?

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