Crime Statistics for Kessingland, Suffolk, 2025

Is Kessingland rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 25 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Violent Crime	10
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	25

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pakefield (1.86 miles)	62
Kessingland Beach (0.88 miles)	26
Kessingland	23
Carlton Colville (1.96 miles)	17
Black Street (0.62 miles)	6
Rushmere (1.96 miles)	4
Barnby (3.61 miles)	2
Cuckold’s Green (3.51 miles)	0
Henstead (1.96 miles)	0
Toad Row (1.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Kessingland?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pakefield	24
Kessingland Beach	16
Carlton Colville	13
Kessingland	10
Black Street	5
Rushmere	0
Barnby	0
Cuckold’s Green	0
Henstead	0
Toad Row	0

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

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 Kessingland 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 Kessingland compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Harbour & Normanston	84
2	Kirkley & Pakefield	63
3	Gunton & St Margarets	56
4	Kessingland	46
5	Lothingland	45
6	Carlton & Whitton	45
7	Oulton Broad	38
8	Beccles & Worlingham	35
9	Carlton Colville	31
10	Southwold	23
11	Halesworth & Blything	20

Which road in Kessingland has the highest level of crime?

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