Crime Statistics for Harleston, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harleston in August 2024. There were a total of 11 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 Harleston, 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 Crime6
Anti Social Behaviour1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Other Theft1
Other Crime1
Public Order1
All Crime11

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Harleston11
Redenhall (1.39 miles)7
Garlic Street (1.86 miles)3
Needham (1.75 miles)3
Rushall (3.16 miles)3
Homersfield (2.77 miles)3
Bush Green (3.1 miles)3
Alburgh (2.63 miles)2
Brockdish (3.51 miles)1
Earsham Street (3.17 miles)0

3.92%
of Beck Vale, Dickleburgh & Scole residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Harleston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Harleston6
Redenhall4
Garlic Street2
Needham2
Rushall2
Bush Green2
Alburgh2
Brockdish1
Homersfield0
Earsham Street0

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

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 Harleston 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 Harleston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bungay & Wainford34
2Diss & Roydon30
3Ditchingham & Earsham24
4Harleston20
5Stratton20
6Bressingham & Burston18
7Kelsale & Yoxford18
8Beck Vale, Dickleburgh & Scole15
9Eye15
10Bunwell6
11Fressingfield5

Which road in Harleston has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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