Crime Statistics for Boughton, Norfolk, 2025

Is Boughton rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 18 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Drugs.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Drugs	4
Violent Crime	4
Other Theft	2
All Crime	18

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Boughton. 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 Boughton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bexwell (4.51 miles)	21
Boughton	10
Brookville (3.62 miles)	7
Stoke Ferry (0.62 miles)	4
Stradsett (3.51 miles)	1
Fincham (3.34 miles)	1
Northwold (3.97 miles)	1
Barton Bendish (2.56 miles)	0
Crimplesham (3.92 miles)	0
Beckett End (4.72 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Boughton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bexwell	8
Boughton	4
Brookville	2
Stoke Ferry	1
Stradsett	1
Fincham	1
Northwold	0
Barton Bendish	0
Crimplesham	0
Beckett End	0

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

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 Boughton 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 Boughton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Downham Old Town	33
2	East Downham	29
3	Bedingfeld	26
4	Methwold	24
5	North Downham	24
6	Nar Valley	18
7	Wissey	12
8	South Downham	6
9	Watlington	5
10	Airfield	4

Which road in Boughton has the highest level of crime?

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