Crime Statistics for Plumpton Green, Lewes, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Plumpton Green in October 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Plumpton Green, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime4
Anti Social Behaviour2
Other Theft1
All Crime7

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 Plumpton Green. 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 Plumpton Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Keymer (3.16 miles)35
Adur (3.25 miles)32
Plumpton Green7
South Chailey (1.96 miles)6
South Street (2.24 miles)5
Barcombe (3.34 miles)3
Cooksbridge (3.1 miles)3
Streat (0.88 miles)2
Plumpton (1.86 miles)1
Plumpton (1.86 miles)1

8.73%
of Plumpton, Streat, East Chiltington & St John residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Plumpton Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Adur14
Keymer7
South Chailey5
South Street5
Plumpton Green4
Barcombe2
Cooksbridge2
Streat1
Plumpton1

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

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 Plumpton Green 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 Plumpton Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Plumpton Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Plumpton Green have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Burgess Hill Leylands.

#WardScore
1Burgess Hill Leylands45
2Burgess Hill Meeds37
3Kingston29
4Hassocks25
5Burgess Hill St Andrews22
6Cuckfield22
7Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey19
8Wivelsfield19
9Ditchling & Westmeston10
10Burgess Hill Franklands9
11Plumpton, Streat, East Chiltington & St John6

Which road in Plumpton Green has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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