Crime Statistics for Earlham, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Earlham in September 2024. There were a total of 570 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Earlham, 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	244
Criminal Damage Arson	60
Public Order	56
Anti Social Behaviour	48
Other Theft	40
Drugs	24
Other Crime	22
Shoplifting	20
Burglary	16
Vehicle Crime	16
Bicycle Theft	12
Possession Of Weapons	8
Robbery	4
All Crime	570

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 Earlham. 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 Earlham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Earlham	288
Mile Cross (1.75 miles)	277
New Costessey (1.39 miles)	151
Bowthorpe (1.39 miles)	146
Bunker’s Hill (0.88 miles)	131
Eaton (1.75 miles)	80
Colney (0.88 miles)	50
Cringleford (1.86 miles)	39
Little Melton (2.23 miles)	26
Bawburgh (2.48 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Earlham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Earlham	244
Bowthorpe	132
Mile Cross	94
New Costessey	57
Bunker’s Hill	50
Eaton	29
Colney	27
Cringleford	15
Little Melton	14
Bawburgh	0

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

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 Earlham 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 Earlham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Mile Cross	83
2	Wensum	76
3	University	65
4	Bowthorpe	61
5	Town Close	47
6	Nelson	46
7	New Costessey	28
8	Cringleford	24
9	Eaton	24
10	Hellesdon North West	17
11	Hethersett	16

Which road in Earlham has the highest level of crime?

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