Crime Statistics for St Leonards, Hastings, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Leonards in October 2024. There were a total of 307 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in St Leonards, 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	125
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Vehicle Crime	30
Other Theft	24
Public Order	18
Shoplifting	16
Burglary	14
Other Crime	6
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	307

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 St Leonards. 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 St Leonards

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blacklands (1.39 miles)	885
Hastings (1.39 miles)	488
Bohemia (0.88 miles)	403
Broomsgrove (1.96 miles)	336
St Leonards	292
Hollington (1.24 miles)	226
Bulverhythe (1.39 miles)	118
Pebsham (1.96 miles)	101
Harley Shute (0.62 miles)	52
Green Street (2.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near St Leonards?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blacklands	294
Hastings	156
Bohemia	128
St Leonards	125
Broomsgrove	121
Hollington	61
Pebsham	24
Harley Shute	21
Bulverhythe	16
Green Street	1

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

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 St Leonards 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 St Leonards compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St Leonards and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.St Leonards is ranked #5.

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

Which road in St Leonards has the highest level of crime?

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