Crime Statistics for Hastings, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hastings in October 2024. There were a total of 488 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 Hastings, 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	156
Shoplifting	93
Anti Social Behaviour	60
Criminal Damage Arson	43
Public Order	39
Other Theft	28
Vehicle Crime	24
Burglary	13
Drugs	10
Theft From The Person	9
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	3
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	488

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 Hastings. 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 Hastings

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blacklands	885
Hastings	488
Bohemia (0.62 miles)	403
Belmont (1.24 miles)	345
Broomsgrove (0.62 miles)	336
St Leonards (1.39 miles)	292
Hollington (1.39 miles)	226
Baldslow (2.24 miles)	166
Bachelor’s Bump (2.23 miles)	61
Harley Shute (1.96 miles)	52

Where are the most violent places near Hastings?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Hastings 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
St Leonards	125
Broomsgrove	121
Baldslow	72
Hollington	61
Bachelor’s Bump	44
Harley Shute	21

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

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 Hastings 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 Hastings compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	86
2	Central St Leonards	85
3	Gensing	82
4	Tressell	76
5	Old Hastings	76
6	Hollington	66
7	Wishing Tree	64
8	Maze Hill	63
9	Braybrooke	60
10	Silverhill	49
11	St Helens	37

Which road in Hastings has the highest level of crime?

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