Crime Statistics for New Sprowston, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Sprowston in August 2024. There were a total of 327 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 Sprowston, 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	116
Anti Social Behaviour	56
Shoplifting	32
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Public Order	20
Burglary	17
Other Theft	14
Vehicle Crime	14
Other Crime	10
Drugs	6
Theft From The Person	6
Bicycle Theft	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	2
All Crime	327

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 Sprowston. 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 Sprowston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Norwich (1.86 miles)	1475
New Catton (0.62 miles)	754
Lakenham (2.48 miles)	497
New Sprowston	327
Mile Cross (1.39 miles)	302
Sprowston (0.62 miles)	193
Old Catton (0.62 miles)	151
Hellesdon (1.96 miles)	143
Spixworth (2.56 miles)	13
Horsham St Faith (2.78 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near New Sprowston?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to New Sprowston 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
Sprowston	72
Hellesdon	68
Old Catton	61
Spixworth	9
Horsham St Faith	2

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

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 Sprowston 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 Sprowston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Sprowston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Sprowston is ranked #7.

#	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	Hellesdon South East	27
9	Old Catton and Sprowston West	19
10	Hellesdon North West	17
11	Sprowston East	8

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

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