Crime Statistics for Fairlight, Rother, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fairlight in September 2024. There were a total of 10 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Drugs.

Crime Category	Incidents
Public Order	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Violent Crime	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	10

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 Fairlight. 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 Fairlight

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blacklands (3.34 miles)	646
Hastings (3.34 miles)	491
Broomsgrove (2.77 miles)	352
Belmont (2.24 miles)	290
Bachelor’s Bump (1.24 miles)	113
Friar’s Hill (0.88 miles)	31
Fairlight	5
Broad Street (2.71 miles)	4
Icklesham (2.56 miles)	4
Fairlight Cove (0.88 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Fairlight?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blacklands	202
Hastings	130
Broomsgrove	109
Belmont	89
Bachelor’s Bump	43
Friar’s Hill	6
Fairlight	2
Broad Street	1
Icklesham	1
Fairlight Cove	1

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

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 Fairlight 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 Fairlight compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fairlight and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Fairlight is ranked #9.

#	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 Fairlight has the highest level of crime?

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