Crime Statistics for New Catton, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Catton in August 2024. There were a total of 754 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 New Catton, 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	282
Anti Social Behaviour	152
Shoplifting	57
Public Order	50
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Other Theft	29
Burglary	27
Drugs	22
Other Crime	20
Vehicle Crime	17
Theft From The Person	14
Possession Of Weapons	14
Bicycle Theft	13
Robbery	13
All Crime	754

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 New Catton. 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 New Catton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Norwich (1.24 miles)	1475
New Catton	754
Lakenham (1.86 miles)	497
New Sprowston (0.62 miles)	327
Mile Cross (1.24 miles)	302
Sprowston (0.88 miles)	193
Earlham (2.77 miles)	169
Old Catton (1.24 miles)	151
Hellesdon (2.24 miles)	143
Long John’s Hill (2.48 miles)	99

Where are the most violent places near New Catton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Norwich	541
New Catton	282
Lakenham	158
New Sprowston	116
Mile Cross	103
Earlham	73
Sprowston	72
Hellesdon	68
Old Catton	61
Long John’s Hill	37

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

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 New Catton 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 New Catton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Catton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Catton is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mile Cross	83
2	Mancroft	81
3	Wensum	76
4	Thorpe Hamlet	72
5	Crome	70
6	Sewell	68
7	Catton Grove	61
8	Lakenham	55
9	Hellesdon South East	27
10	Thorpe St Andrew South East	18
11	Sprowston East	8

Which road in New Catton has the highest level of crime?

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