Crime Statistics for Creeting St Mary, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Creeting St Mary in October 2024. There were a total of 29 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Creeting St Mary, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime11
Public Order6
Criminal Damage Arson5
Anti Social Behaviour2
Other Theft2
Vehicle Crime1
Other Crime1
Burglary1
All Crime29

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 Creeting St Mary. 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 Creeting St Mary

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Combs Ford (2.55 miles)30
Creeting St Mary29
Needham Market (0.88 miles)28
Little Stonham (2.24 miles)7
Earl Stoneham (1.75 miles)3
Coddenham Green (1.39 miles)2
Creeting Bottoms (1.39 miles)2
Forward Green (1.86 miles)1
Battisford (2.77 miles)1
Barking (2.24 miles)0

4.95%
of Needham Market residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Creeting St Mary?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Combs Ford12
Creeting St Mary11
Needham Market10
Coddenham Green2
Little Stonham0
Earl Stoneham0
Creeting Bottoms0
Forward Green0
Battisford0
Barking0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Creeting St Mary?

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 Creeting St Mary 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 Creeting St Mary compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1St Peter's65
2Combs Ford51
3Stow Thorney46
4Chilton41
5Haughley, Stowupland & Wetherden29
6Blakenham27
7Onehouse25
8Stonham19
9Battisford & Ringshall19
10Needham Market19
11Mendlesham17

Which road in Creeting St Mary has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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