Crime Statistics for Sprowston, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sprowston in September 2024. There were a total of 182 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 Sprowston, 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	67
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Shoplifting	23
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Public Order	12
Burglary	6
Other Crime	6
Other Theft	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	182

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 Sprowston. 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 Sprowston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Norwich (1.96 miles)	840
New Catton (0.88 miles)	674
Lakenham (2.56 miles)	526
New Sprowston (0.62 miles)	288
Mile Cross (1.96 miles)	277
Sprowston	182
Old Catton (0.88 miles)	159
Hellesdon (2.55 miles)	143
New Rackheath (2.55 miles)	32
Spixworth (2.48 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Sprowston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Norwich	257
New Catton	238
Lakenham	151
New Sprowston	122
Mile Cross	94
Sprowston	67
Hellesdon	66
Old Catton	63
New Rackheath	14
Spixworth	2

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

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 Sprowston 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 Sprowston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Mile Cross	83
2	Mancroft	81
3	Wensum	76
4	Thorpe Hamlet	72
5	Crome	70
6	Sewell	68
7	Catton Grove	61
8	Old Catton and Sprowston West	19
9	Thorpe St Andrew South East	18
10	Thorpe St Andrew North West	18
11	Sprowston East	8

Which road in Sprowston has the highest level of crime?

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