Crime Statistics for North Pickenham, Breckland, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for North Pickenham in August 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	2

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 North Pickenham. 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 North Pickenham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Neaton (4.39 miles)	70
Saham Hills (3.1 miles)	12
Ivy Todd (2.63 miles)	8
Necton (1.96 miles)	8
Ashill (1.75 miles)	5
Saham Toney (3.1 miles)	2
Sporle (3.34 miles)	2
North Pickenham	2
Great Cressingham (3.17 miles)	1
Little Dunham (3.73 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near North Pickenham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Neaton	32
Saham Hills	20
Ashill	4
Saham Toney	4
Ivy Todd	3
Necton	3
Sporle	2
North Pickenham	1
Great Cressingham	0
Little Dunham	0

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

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 North Pickenham 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 North Pickenham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to North Pickenham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in North Pickenham have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Swaffham.

#	Ward	Score
1	Swaffham	40
2	Saham Toney	27
3	Bedingfeld	26
4	Watton	22
5	Ashill	18
6	Launditch	18
7	Nar Valley	18
8	Shipdham-with-Scarning	15
9	Dereham Toftwood	15
10	Lincoln	15
11	Necton	10

Which road in North Pickenham has the highest level of crime?

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