Crime Statistics for Sprowston, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sprowston in October 2024. There were a total of 205 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 Sprowston, 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	84
Shoplifting	20
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Public Order	15
Other Crime	15
Other Theft	9
Drugs	7
Burglary	6
Vehicle Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	205

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 Sprowston. 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 Sprowston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Norwich (1.96 miles)	920
New Catton (0.88 miles)	694
Lakenham (2.56 miles)	481
Mile Cross (1.96 miles)	303
New Sprowston (0.62 miles)	278
Sprowston	205
Old Catton (0.88 miles)	166
Hellesdon (2.55 miles)	91
New Rackheath (2.55 miles)	14
Spixworth (2.48 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Sprowston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Norwich	271
New Catton	243
Lakenham	198
Mile Cross	116
New Sprowston	97
Sprowston	84
Old Catton	57
Hellesdon	53
New Rackheath	7
Spixworth	3

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

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 Sprowston 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 Sprowston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sprowston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sprowston is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mile Cross	83
2	Mancroft	81
3	Wensum	76
4	Thorpe Hamlet	72
5	Crome	70
6	Sewell	68
7	Catton Grove	61
8	Old Catton and Sprowston West	19
9	Thorpe St Andrew South East	18
10	Thorpe St Andrew North West	18
11	Sprowston East	8

Which road in Sprowston has the highest level of crime?

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