Crime Statistics for Lower Cousley Wood, Wealden, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Cousley Wood in August 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	1

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 Lower Cousley Wood. 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 Lower Cousley Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sparrow’s Green (1.96 miles)	9
Pell Green (1.39 miles)	6
Stone Cross (1.75 miles)	4
Bewl (1.53 miles)	2
Birchett’s Green (1.24 miles)	2
Bewl Bridge Reservoir (1.28 miles)	1
Wallcrouch (1.86 miles)	1
Lower Cousley Wood	1
Stonecrouch (1.86 miles)	1
Hook Green (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Lower Cousley Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sparrow’s Green	1
Pell Green	1
Bewl	1
Bewl Bridge Reservoir	1
Stone Cross	0
Birchett’s Green	0
Wallcrouch	0
Lower Cousley Wood	0
Stonecrouch	0
Hook Green	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lower Cousley Wood?

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 Lower Cousley Wood 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 Lower Cousley Wood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Broadwater	64
2	St James'	37
3	St John's	32
4	Culverden	30
5	Hawkhurst and Sandhurst	29
6	Park	26
7	Brenchley and Horsmonden	21
8	Burwash & the Weald	16
9	Frant & Wadhurst	15
10	Pantiles and St Mark's	13
11	Mayfield & Five Ashes	4

Which road in Lower Cousley Wood has the highest level of crime?

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