Crime Statistics for Dowe Hill, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dowe Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 32 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Dowe Hill, 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	19
Other Theft	5
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	32

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Caister-on-Sea (2.78 miles)	58
Newport	42
Dowe Hill	25
Martham (3.34 miles)	24
Hemsby (0.88 miles)	21
California (0.88 miles)	18
Damgate (3.61 miles)	11
Filby (3.1 miles)	4
Mautby (2.77 miles)	2
Filby Heath (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Dowe Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Caister-on-Sea	39
Martham	28
Dowe Hill	19
Newport	17
Damgate	9
Hemsby	8
California	8
Filby	3
Mautby	2
Filby Heath	2

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

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 Dowe Hill 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 Dowe Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dowe Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Dowe Hill is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central and Northgate	92
2	Nelson	89
3	Yarmouth North	82
4	Southtown and Cobholm	69
5	East Flegg	33
6	Caister South	31
7	West Flegg	27
8	Fleggburgh	26
9	Ormesby	19
10	Bradwell North	10
11	Caister North	10

Which road in Dowe Hill has the highest level of crime?

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