Crime Statistics for Southwold, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southwold in October 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Other Theft	2
Shoplifting	1
Other Crime	1
Violent Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	9

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 Southwold. 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 Southwold

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Southwold	9
Reydon (1.39 miles)	6
Reydon Smear (1.39 miles)	6
Wangford (3.1 miles)	4
Barnaby Green (2.63 miles)	3
Blythburgh (3.16 miles)	2
Frostenden Corner (2.77 miles)	2
Frostenden (3.34 miles)	1
South Cove (2.56 miles)	1
Cuckold’s Green (3.93 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Southwold?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Reydon	2
Reydon Smear	2
Wangford	2
Barnaby Green	2
Frostenden Corner	2
Southwold	1
Blythburgh	1
Frostenden	1
South Cove	1
Cuckold’s Green	0

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

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 Southwold 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 Southwold compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Harbour & Normanston	84
2	Kirkley & Pakefield	63
3	Kessingland	46
4	Carlton & Whitton	45
5	Saxmundham	42
6	Oulton Broad	38
7	Beccles & Worlingham	35
8	Carlton Colville	31
9	Wrentham, Wangford & Westleton	31
10	Southwold	23
11	Halesworth & Blything	20

Which road in Southwold has the highest level of crime?

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