Crime Statistics for Pebsham, Bexhill, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pebsham in September 2024. There were a total of 422 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	120
Violent Crime	119
Anti Social Behaviour	100
Public Order	28
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Other Theft	16
Burglary	8
Vehicle Crime	4
Drugs	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	422

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 Pebsham. 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 Pebsham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sidley (1.39 miles)	409
Bexhill (1.86 miles)	275
Hollington (2.63 miles)	239
Pebsham	208
St Leonards (1.96 miles)	173
Harley Shute (1.39 miles)	82
Bulverhythe (0.62 miles)	64
Watermill (2.63 miles)	19
Green Street (1.86 miles)	3
Crowhurst (2.56 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Pebsham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sidley	141
Pebsham	119
Hollington	74
Bexhill	68
St Leonards	65
Harley Shute	41
Bulverhythe	10
Watermill	5
Green Street	1
Crowhurst	1

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

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 Pebsham 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 Pebsham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pebsham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pebsham is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central St Leonards	85
2	West St Leonards	76
3	Bexhill Central	69
4	Bexhill Sidley	68
5	Wishing Tree	64
6	Maze Hill	63
7	Bexhill Sackville	53
8	Bexhill St Stephens	44
9	Bexhill Old Town & Worsham	29
10	Bexhill Pebsham & St Michaels	21
11	Bexhill Kewhurst	12

Which road in Pebsham has the highest level of crime?

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