Crime Statistics for Boyton, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Boyton in October 2024. There were a total of 6 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Crime	3
Violent Crime	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	6

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 Boyton. 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 Boyton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alderton (4.16 miles)	6
Boyton	6
Oak Hill (1.39 miles)	5
Capel Green (1.39 miles)	1
Capel St Andrew (0.62 miles)	1
Bromeswell (4.72 miles)	1
Butley (3.03 miles)	0
Duck Corner (1.75 miles)	0
Hollesley (2.24 miles)	0
Eyke (4.47 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Boyton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alderton	3
Boyton	2
Oak Hill	2
Capel Green	0
Capel St Andrew	0
Bromeswell	0
Butley	0
Duck Corner	0
Hollesley	0
Eyke	0

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

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 Boyton 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 Boyton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Boyton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Boyton have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Eastern Felixstowe.

#	Ward	Score
1	Eastern Felixstowe	34
2	Orwell & Villages	27
3	Woodbridge	27
4	Aldeburgh & Leiston	21
5	Carlford & Fynn Valley	20
6	Wickham Market	17
7	Melton	16
8	Deben	15
9	Kesgrave	11
10	Framlingham	10
11	Rendlesham & Orford	8

Which road in Boyton has the highest level of crime?

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