Crime Statistics for Cobholm Island, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cobholm Island in October 2024. There were a total of 293 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 Cobholm Island, 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 Crime106
Anti Social Behaviour46
Shoplifting37
Public Order30
Criminal Damage Arson27
Other Theft17
Vehicle Crime6
Drugs6
Bicycle Theft5
Possession Of Weapons5
Burglary3
Other Crime3
Theft From The Person2
All Crime293

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 Cobholm Island. 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 Cobholm Island

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Great Yarmouth (0.62 miles)546
Runham (0.62 miles)529
Cobholm Island293
Southtown (0.88 miles)256
Gorleston-on-Sea (2.56 miles)181
South Denes (2.24 miles)155
Caister-on-Sea (3.16 miles)41
Burgh Castle (2.63 miles)23
Belton (3.62 miles)10
Mautby (3.62 miles)0

17.19%
of Southtown and Cobholm residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cobholm Island?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Southtown221
Great Yarmouth217
Runham175
Cobholm Island106
Gorleston-on-Sea76
South Denes66
Caister-on-Sea24
Burgh Castle7
Belton4
Mautby0

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

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 Cobholm Island 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 Cobholm Island compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cobholm Island and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cobholm Island is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Central and Northgate92
2Nelson89
3Yarmouth North82
4Southtown and Cobholm69
5St Andrews68
6Claydon67
7Magdalen48
8Gorleston44
9Bradwell South and Hopton36
10Caister South31
11Bradwell North10

Which road in Cobholm Island has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Cobholm Island with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around A1154.

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