Crime Statistics for Castle Hill, Ipswich, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Castle Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 131 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 Castle Hill, 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	52
Shoplifting	15
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	12
Vehicle Crime	10
Public Order	9
Burglary	8
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	131

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Castle Hill. 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 Castle Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ipswich (1.96 miles)	524
Stoke (2.56 miles)	436
Chantry (2.56 miles)	282
Akenham (0.88 miles)	182
Castle Hill	131
Sproughton (2.63 miles)	18
The Common (1.96 miles)	11
Barham (2.56 miles)	5
Henley (2.48 miles)	1
Tuddenham St Martin (2.55 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Castle Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ipswich	222
Stoke	213
Akenham	142
Chantry	111
Castle Hill	52
Sproughton	5
Barham	2
The Common	1
Henley	1
Tuddenham St Martin	1

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

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 Castle Hill 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 Castle Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Castle Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Castle Hill is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Westgate	86
2	Alexandra	79
3	Bridge	77
4	Whitton	76
5	Gipping	74
6	Whitehouse	69
7	St Margaret's	60
8	Sproughton & Pinewood	57
9	Castle Hill	48
10	Rushmere	42
11	Claydon & Barham	24

Which road in Castle Hill has the highest level of crime?

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