Crime Statistics for Brighton, Brighton and Hove, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brighton in September 2024. There were a total of 790 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 Brighton, 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	219
Anti Social Behaviour	112
Shoplifting	105
Public Order	74
Criminal Damage Arson	57
Other Theft	55
Vehicle Crime	46
Drugs	35
Burglary	27
Bicycle Theft	17
Robbery	13
Other Crime	11
Theft From The Person	10
Possession Of Weapons	9
All Crime	790

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 Brighton. 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 Brighton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kemp Town (1.58 miles)	1577
Brighton	790
Hollingdean	790
Aldrington (2.55 miles)	305
Black Rock (2.12 miles)	265
Hollingbury (1.24 miles)	223
North Moulsecoomb (1.39 miles)	216
Coldean (1.75 miles)	138
Bevendean (1.86 miles)	127
Patcham (1.39 miles)	120

Where are the most violent places near Brighton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kemp Town	499
Brighton	219
Hollingdean	219
Black Rock	92
Aldrington	89
North Moulsecoomb	73
Hollingbury	59
Bevendean	46
Patcham	44
Coldean	39

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

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 Brighton 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 Brighton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brighton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Brighton is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Queen's Park	73
2	Regency	71
3	St. Peter's and North Laine	59
4	Hanover and Elm Grove	51
5	Hollingdean and Stanmer	47
6	Brunswick and Adelaide	47
7	Patcham	34
8	Goldsmid	32
9	Preston Park	32
10	Withdean	27
11	Hove Park	27

Which road in Brighton has the highest level of crime?

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