Crime Statistics for Black Rock, Brighton, Brighton, 2025

Is Black Rock rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 275 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 Black Rock, 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	88
Anti Social Behaviour	46
Criminal Damage Arson	42
Public Order	21
Other Theft	20
Shoplifting	16
Drugs	11
Bicycle Theft	8
Burglary	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Robbery	1
All Crime	275

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Black Rock. 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 Black Rock

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kemp Town (0.58 miles)	781
Brighton (2.12 miles)	744
Hollingdean (2.12 miles)	609
Black Rock	275
North Moulsecoomb (2.22 miles)	198
Coldean (2.84 miles)	155
Bevendean (1.66 miles)	119
Falmer (3.03 miles)	46
Rottingdean (2.49 miles)	0
Saltdean (3.07 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Black Rock?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hollingdean	261
Kemp Town	248
Brighton	212
North Moulsecoomb	100
Black Rock	88
Coldean	59
Bevendean	50
Falmer	24
Rottingdean	0
Saltdean	0

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

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 Black Rock 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 Black Rock compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	East Brighton	74
2	Queen's Park	73
3	Regency	71
4	St. Peter's and North Laine	59
5	Hanover and Elm Grove	51
6	Hollingdean and Stanmer	47
7	Brunswick and Adelaide	47
8	Goldsmid	32
9	Preston Park	32
10	Rottingdean Coastal	27
11	Woodingdean	26

Which road in Black Rock has the highest level of crime?

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