Crime Statistics for The Common, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for The Common in October 2024. There were a total of 18 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 The Common, 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	6
Public Order	4
Drugs	3
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	18

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 The Common. 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 The Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Castle Hill (1.96 miles)	131
Akenham (1.24 miles)	69
The Common	18
Great Blakenham (1.24 miles)	17
Sproughton (2.48 miles)	10
Nettlestead (2.55 miles)	6
Barham (2.24 miles)	4
Burstall (3.1 miles)	2
Henley (2.63 miles)	1
Burstallhill (3.1 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near The Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Castle Hill	62
Akenham	29
The Common	6
Great Blakenham	5
Sproughton	2
Barham	2
Nettlestead	1
Burstall	0
Henley	0
Burstallhill	0

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

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 The Common 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 The Common compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to The Common and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in The Common have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Westgate.

#	Ward	Score
1	Westgate	86
2	Whitton	76
3	Gipping	74
4	Whitehouse	69
5	Sprites	60
6	St Margaret's	60
7	Sproughton & Pinewood	57
8	Castle Hill	48
9	Bramford	39
10	Blakenham	27
11	Claydon & Barham	24

Which road in The Common has the highest level of crime?

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