Crime Statistics for Telscombe Cliffs, Lewes, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Telscombe Cliffs in August 2024. There were a total of 120 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 Telscombe Cliffs, 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 Crime36
Anti Social Behaviour24
Criminal Damage Arson12
Public Order11
Other Theft8
Shoplifting8
Burglary6
Other Crime5
Vehicle Crime5
Drugs4
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime120

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 Telscombe Cliffs. 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 Telscombe Cliffs

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Newhaven (2.48 miles)128
Telscombe Cliffs113
Peacehaven (0.62 miles)107
Tarring Neville (2.77 miles)68
Rottingdean (1.96 miles)56
Telscombe (1.24 miles)56
Peacehaven Heights (1.39 miles)50
Harbour Heights (1.96 miles)49
Saltdean (1.39 miles)47
Southease (2.78 miles)1

10.4%
of East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Telscombe Cliffs?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Newhaven38
Telscombe Cliffs36
Tarring Neville33
Peacehaven29
Rottingdean26
Telscombe25
Harbour Heights14
Saltdean14
Peacehaven Heights9
Southease0

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

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 Telscombe Cliffs 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 Telscombe Cliffs compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1East Brighton74
2Newhaven South60
3Newhaven North49
4Peacehaven East42
5Peacehaven West42
6Peacehaven North36
7Rottingdean Coastal27
8Woodingdean26
9Ouse Valley & Ringmer23
10East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs21
11Seaford West3

Which road in Telscombe Cliffs has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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