Crime Statistics for Bachelor’s Bump, Hastings, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bachelor’s Bump in October 2024. There were a total of 103 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bachelor’s Bump, 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	44
Public Order	13
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Theft	9
Burglary	6
Shoplifting	4
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	103

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 Bachelor’s Bump. 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 Bachelor’s Bump

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blacklands (2.23 miles)	885
Hastings (2.23 miles)	488
Bohemia (2.77 miles)	403
Belmont (1.39 miles)	345
Broomsgrove (1.75 miles)	336
Bachelor’s Bump	61
Friar’s Hill (0.88 miles)	18
Icklesham (3.1 miles)	3
Fairlight (1.24 miles)	2
Fairlight Cove (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Bachelor’s Bump?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blacklands	294
Belmont	157
Hastings	156
Bohemia	128
Broomsgrove	121
Bachelor’s Bump	44
Friar’s Hill	6
Icklesham	1
Fairlight Cove	1
Fairlight	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bachelor’s Bump?

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 Bachelor’s Bump 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 Bachelor’s Bump compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bachelor’s Bump and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bachelor’s Bump is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	86
2	Gensing	82
3	Baird	79
4	Tressell	76
5	Old Hastings	76
6	Ore	69
7	Braybrooke	60
8	Silverhill	49
9	Southern Rother	37
10	St Helens	37
11	Conquest	20

Which road in Bachelor’s Bump has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bachelor’s Bump with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around The Ridge.