Crime Statistics for South Denes, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Denes in August 2024. There were a total of 157 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime50
Shoplifting31
Criminal Damage Arson25
Anti Social Behaviour16
Public Order11
Other Theft7
Other Crime5
Robbery3
Vehicle Crime3
Drugs2
Theft From The Person2
Burglary1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime157

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Great Yarmouth (1.96 miles)1081
Cobholm Island (2.24 miles)518
Southtown (1.39 miles)367
Runham (2.77 miles)302
Gorleston-on-Sea (0.88 miles)171
South Denes157
Burgh Castle (3.1 miles)16
Hopton on Sea (2.56 miles)13
Belton (3.34 miles)9
Bunker’s Hill (3.1 miles)4

10.04%
of Gorleston residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Great Yarmouth449
Cobholm Island409
Southtown152
Runham118
Gorleston-on-Sea62
South Denes50
Hopton on Sea8
Burgh Castle6
Belton5
Bunker’s Hill3

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.

#WardScore
1Central and Northgate92
2Nelson89
3Yarmouth North82
4Southtown and Cobholm69
5St Andrews68
6Claydon67
7Magdalen48
8Lothingland45
9Gorleston44
10Bradwell South and Hopton36
11Bradwell North10

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.

Last updated: August 2024
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