Crime Statistics for Penhurst, Rother, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Penhurst in August 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	2

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 Penhurst. 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 Penhurst

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Marlpits (1.96 miles)	4
Catsfield (2.63 miles)	4
Lower Street (2.56 miles)	3
Catsfield Stream (2.24 miles)	2
Penhurst	2
Netherfield (1.75 miles)	2
Hollingrove (2.48 miles)	1
Ponts Green (1.39 miles)	1
Brownbread Street (0.88 miles)	0
Ashburnham Forge (0.62 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Penhurst?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Catsfield Stream	3
Marlpits	2
Catsfield	2
Lower Street	1
Netherfield	1
Penhurst	0
Hollingrove	0
Ponts Green	0
Brownbread Street	0
Ashburnham Forge	0

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

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 Penhurst 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 Penhurst compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bexhill Sidley	68
2	Bexhill St Stephens	44
3	Sedlescombe & Westfield	40
4	Bexhill Old Town & Worsham	29
5	South Battle & Telham	28
6	North Battle, Netherfield & Whatlington	27
7	Bexhill Pebsham & St Michaels	21
8	Bexhill Collington	20
9	Catsfield & Crowhurst	20
10	Horam & Punnetts Town	14
11	Bexhill Kewhurst	12

Which road in Penhurst has the highest level of crime?

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