Crime Statistics for Sheringham, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sheringham in October 2024. There were a total of 80 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	43
Violent Crime	11
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Public Order	6
Other Theft	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Shoplifting	2
All Crime	80

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sheringham	83
Cromer (3.77 miles)	56
Beeston Regis (0.88 miles)	21
Sheringwood (1.39 miles)	5
Bodham (2.63 miles)	4
High Kelling (3.61 miles)	4
Salthouse (4.95 miles)	1
Aylmerton (3.1 miles)	1
Crossdale Street (5 miles)	1
Gresham (3.17 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Sheringham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sheringham	11
Cromer	10
Beeston Regis	5
Sheringwood	1
Bodham	1
Aylmerton	1
Crossdale Street	1
High Kelling	0
Salthouse	0
Gresham	0

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

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 Sheringham 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 Sheringham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sheringham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sheringham is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Cromer Town	26
2	Sheringham North	26
3	Sheringham South	15
4	Suffield Park	13
5	Holt	10
6	Briston	10
7	Gresham	8
8	Erpingham	5
9	Beeston Regis & The Runtons	4
10	Poppyland	1

Which road in Sheringham has the highest level of crime?

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