Crime Statistics for Brighton, Brighton and Hove, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brighton in October 2024. There were a total of 858 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 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	234
Shoplifting	142
Anti Social Behaviour	130
Public Order	69
Other Theft	60
Criminal Damage Arson	52
Bicycle Theft	31
Drugs	31
Burglary	30
Other Crime	27
Vehicle Crime	25
Theft From The Person	19
Possession Of Weapons	5
Robbery	3
All Crime	858

Map of street level crime incidents in October 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)	1231
Brighton	858
Hollingdean	858
Aldrington (2.55 miles)	308
Black Rock (2.12 miles)	286
North Moulsecoomb (1.39 miles)	201
Patcham (1.39 miles)	174
Coldean (1.75 miles)	140
Hollingbury (1.24 miles)	135
Bevendean (1.86 miles)	116

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	418
Brighton	234
Hollingdean	234
Black Rock	112
Aldrington	109
North Moulsecoomb	78
Patcham	59
Coldean	57
Bevendean	53
Hollingbury	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 Park Close.