Crime Statistics for California, Ipswich, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for California in August 2024. There were a total of 1143 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	544
Criminal Damage Arson	108
Public Order	104
Anti Social Behaviour	100
Other Theft	56
Vehicle Crime	56
Other Crime	47
Shoplifting	44
Burglary	44
Drugs	12
Possession Of Weapons	12
Theft From The Person	12
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	1143

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 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)	591
California	571
Stoke (1.39 miles)	326
Broke Hall (0.88 miles)	198
Rushmere St Andrew (0.88 miles)	156
Racecourse (1.24 miles)	144
Greenwich (1.39 miles)	88
Warren Heath (1.75 miles)	72
Rushmere Street (1.75 miles)	66
Kesgrave (1.96 miles)	41

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
California	544
Ipswich	241
Stoke	151
Broke Hall	95
Rushmere St Andrew	83
Racecourse	73
Warren Heath	66
Rushmere Street	39
Greenwich	37
Kesgrave	19

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.