Crime Statistics for Downend, Arreton, Isle of Wight, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Downend in October 2024. There were a total of 16 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Downend, 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	10
Burglary	2
Other Theft	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	16

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 Downend. 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 Downend

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barton (2.24 miles)	212
Fairlee (2.39 miles)	197
Pan (1.96 miles)	136
Shide (1.96 miles)	126
Arreton (0.88 miles)	12
Isle of Wight (2.11 miles)	10
Downend	8
Newchurch (1.76 miles)	7
Blackwater (1.96 miles)	0
Littletown (1.86 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Downend?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pan	118
Shide	117
Barton	86
Fairlee	76
Arreton	18
Downend	10
Newchurch	6
Isle of Wight	5
Blackwater	0
Littletown	0

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

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 Downend 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 Downend compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Newport Central	77
2	Newport East	70
3	Newport South	66
4	Newport North	58
5	Parkhurst	54
6	Newport West	52
7	Havenstreet, Ashey and Haylands	48
8	Godshill and Wroxall	23
9	Wootton Bridge	20
10	Arreton and Newchurch	17
11	Central Wight	14

Which road in Downend has the highest level of crime?

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