Crime Statistics for California, Ipswich, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for California in October 2024. There were a total of 389 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 California, 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	185
Criminal Damage Arson	39
Vehicle Crime	30
Public Order	25
Other Theft	25
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Other Crime	19
Drugs	11
Shoplifting	9
Burglary	8
Theft From The Person	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Robbery	2
All Crime	389

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 California. 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 California

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ipswich (1.24 miles)	567
Stoke (1.39 miles)	302
California	248
Broke Hall (0.88 miles)	209
Greenwich (1.39 miles)	205
Rushmere St Andrew (0.88 miles)	163
Racecourse (1.24 miles)	152
Warren Heath (1.75 miles)	102
Rushmere Street (1.75 miles)	69
Kesgrave (1.96 miles)	33

Where are the most violent places near California?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ipswich	228
California	185
Stoke	131
Greenwich	85
Broke Hall	78
Rushmere St Andrew	78
Racecourse	61
Rushmere Street	39
Warren Heath	34
Kesgrave	8

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

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 California 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 California compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Westgate	86
2	Alexandra	79
3	Bridge	77
4	Gipping	74
5	Stoke Park	72
6	Holywells	71
7	Gainsborough	61
8	Rushmere	42
9	Bixley	42
10	St John's	37
11	Rushmere St Andrew	3

Which road in California has the highest level of crime?

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