Crime Statistics for Drayton, Broadland, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Drayton in October 2024. There were a total of 25 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 Drayton, 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	13
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Burglary	4
Criminal Damage Arson	2
All Crime	25

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 Drayton. 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 Drayton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Costessey (1.86 miles)	180
Bunker’s Hill (2.48 miles)	162
Hellesdon (1.39 miles)	91
Costessey Park (1.75 miles)	68
Taverham (1.39 miles)	32
Drayton	27
Horsford (1.96 miles)	19
Costessey (0.88 miles)	19
Freeland Corner (2.24 miles)	18
Horsham St Faith (2.23 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Drayton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Costessey	73
Bunker’s Hill	65
Hellesdon	53
Costessey Park	20
Taverham	17
Drayton	13
Horsford	10
Costessey	8
Freeland Corner	8
Horsham St Faith	1

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

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 Drayton 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 Drayton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Drayton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Drayton is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mile Cross	83
2	Bowthorpe	61
3	Old Costessey	34
4	New Costessey	28
5	Hellesdon South East	27
6	Hellesdon North West	17
7	Horsford and Felthorpe	9
8	Drayton South	9
9	Taverham North	4
10	Drayton North	3
11	Taverham South	1

Which road in Drayton has the highest level of crime?

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