Crime Statistics for South Denes, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 2025

Is South Denes rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 183 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Denes, 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	73
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Vehicle Crime	15
Shoplifting	12
Burglary	8
Other Theft	8
Other Crime	7
Drugs	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	183

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Great Yarmouth (1.96 miles)	737
Runham (2.77 miles)	277
Southtown (1.39 miles)	262
Gorleston-on-Sea (0.88 miles)	202
Cobholm Island (2.24 miles)	189
South Denes	168
Belton (3.34 miles)	12
Hopton on Sea (2.56 miles)	6
Burgh Castle (3.1 miles)	6
Bunker’s Hill (3.1 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near South Denes?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Great Yarmouth	347
Southtown	130
Cobholm Island	105
Gorleston-on-Sea	89
Runham	83
South Denes	73
Belton	7
Burgh Castle	4
Hopton on Sea	1
Bunker’s Hill	1

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

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 South Denes 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 South Denes compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Denes and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Denes is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central and Northgate	92
2	Nelson	89
3	Yarmouth North	82
4	Southtown and Cobholm	69
5	St Andrews	68
6	Claydon	67
7	Magdalen	48
8	Lothingland	45
9	Gorleston	44
10	Bradwell South and Hopton	36
11	Bradwell North	10

Which road in South Denes has the highest level of crime?

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