Crime Statistics for Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Norwich in September 2024. There were a total of 840 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 Norwich, 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	257
Anti Social Behaviour	176
Shoplifting	129
Public Order	57
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Other Theft	38
Drugs	37
Bicycle Theft	22
Burglary	19
Theft From The Person	14
Vehicle Crime	14
Other Crime	13
Robbery	12
Possession Of Weapons	8
All Crime	840

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 Norwich. 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 Norwich

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Norwich	840
New Catton (1.24 miles)	674
Lakenham (0.62 miles)	526
New Sprowston (1.86 miles)	288
Earlham (2.48 miles)	288
Mile Cross (1.75 miles)	277
Long John’s Hill (1.24 miles)	231
Sprowston (1.96 miles)	182
Old Catton (2.48 miles)	159
Eaton (1.75 miles)	80

Where are the most violent places near Norwich?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Norwich	257
Earlham	244
New Catton	238
Lakenham	151
New Sprowston	122
Mile Cross	94
Long John’s Hill	76
Sprowston	67
Old Catton	63
Eaton	29

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

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 Norwich 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 Norwich compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Norwich and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Norwich have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Poringland, Framinghams & Trowse.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mancroft	81
2	Wensum	76
3	Thorpe Hamlet	72
4	Sewell	68
5	University	65
6	Lakenham	55
7	Town Close	47
8	Nelson	46
9	Eaton	24
10	Thorpe St Andrew South East	18
11	Poringland, Framinghams & Trowse	11

Which road in Norwich has the highest level of crime?

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