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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hollingdean in August 2024. There were a total of 800 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 Hollingdean, 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	232
Anti Social Behaviour	117
Shoplifting	79
Public Order	70
Other Theft	64
Criminal Damage Arson	50
Burglary	45
Drugs	35
Vehicle Crime	32
Bicycle Theft	22
Other Crime	17
Possession Of Weapons	16
Theft From The Person	12
Robbery	9
All Crime	800

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 Hollingdean. 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 Hollingdean

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kemp Town (1.58 miles)	1616
Brighton	800
Hollingdean	800
Aldrington (2.55 miles)	305
Black Rock (2.12 miles)	265
North Moulsecoomb (1.39 miles)	187
Coldean (1.75 miles)	154
Hollingbury (1.24 miles)	132
Patcham (1.39 miles)	130
Bevendean (1.86 miles)	127

Where are the most violent places near Hollingdean?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kemp Town	526
Brighton	232
Hollingdean	232
Coldean	97
Black Rock	92
Aldrington	89
North Moulsecoomb	58
Bevendean	46
Patcham	33
Hollingbury	30

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

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 Hollingdean 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 Hollingdean compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hollingdean and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hollingdean 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 Hollingdean has the highest level of crime?

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