Crime Statistics for Hollingbury, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hollingbury in August 2024. There were a total of 132 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hollingbury, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime30
Criminal Damage Arson19
Anti Social Behaviour19
Other Theft19
Shoplifting12
Drugs8
Vehicle Crime7
Public Order5
Burglary5
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery2
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime132

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 Hollingbury. 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 Hollingbury

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Kemp Town (2.7 miles)1616
Brighton (1.24 miles)800
Hollingdean (1.24 miles)800
Aldrington (3.1 miles)305
North Moulsecoomb (1.39 miles)187
Coldean (1.24 miles)154
Hollingbury132
Patcham (0.62 miles)130
Bevendean (2.24 miles)127
Falmer (2.48 miles)36

10.96%
of Patcham residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hollingbury?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Kemp Town526
Brighton232
Hollingdean232
Coldean97
Aldrington89
North Moulsecoomb58
Bevendean46
Patcham33
Hollingbury30
Falmer6

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

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 Hollingbury 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 Hollingbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Queen's Park73
2Regency71
3St. Peter's and North Laine59
4Hanover and Elm Grove51
5Hollingdean and Stanmer47
6Brunswick and Adelaide47
7Patcham34
8Goldsmid32
9Preston Park32
10Withdean27
11Hove Park27

Which road in Hollingbury has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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