Crime Statistics for Ipswich, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ipswich in September 2024. There were a total of 524 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 Ipswich, 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 Crime222
Criminal Damage Arson53
Public Order50
Shoplifting48
Anti Social Behaviour39
Other Theft25
Vehicle Crime18
Other Crime15
Drugs14
Burglary13
Robbery8
Possession Of Weapons7
Bicycle Theft7
Theft From The Person5
All Crime524

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 Ipswich. 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 Ipswich

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ipswich524
Stoke (0.62 miles)436
Chantry (1.39 miles)282
California (1.24 miles)266
Broke Hall (1.96 miles)259
Stoke Park (1.39 miles)150
Racecourse (1.75 miles)146
Rushmere St Andrew (1.96 miles)142
Maidenhall (1.39 miles)109
Greenwich (1.39 miles)107

24.55%
of Bridge (Ipswich) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ipswich?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ipswich222
Stoke213
Chantry111
California107
Broke Hall103
Stoke Park75
Rushmere St Andrew74
Racecourse68
Maidenhall47
Greenwich42

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

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 Ipswich 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 Ipswich compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ipswich and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ipswich is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Westgate86
2Alexandra79
3Bridge77
4Gipping74
5Stoke Park72
6Holywells71
7Whitehouse69
8Sprites60
9St Margaret's60
10Castle Hill48
11Orwell32

Which road in Ipswich has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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