Crime Statistics for Black Corner, Crawley, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Black Corner in October 2024. There were a total of 71 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Black Corner, 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	31
Other Theft	9
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Public Order	5
Vehicle Crime	5
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Shoplifting	3
Burglary	3
Robbery	1
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	71

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 Black Corner. 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 Black Corner

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Crawley (2.24 miles)	881
Manor Royal (1.96 miles)	777
Langley Green (1.96 miles)	436
Ifield Green (2.55 miles)	150
Maidenbower (2.49 miles)	122
Fernhill (1.39 miles)	119
Tinsley Green (0.62 miles)	112
Black Corner	71
Shipley Bridge (0.88 miles)	54
Copthorne (1.24 miles)	51

Where are the most violent places near Black Corner?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crawley	324
Manor Royal	238
Langley Green	140
Tinsley Green	54
Maidenbower	51
Ifield Green	50
Black Corner	31
Copthorne	24
Shipley Bridge	21
Fernhill	16

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

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 Black Corner 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 Black Corner compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Black Corner and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Black Corner is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Southgate	69
2	Northgate & West Green	66
3	Three Bridges	59
4	Charlwood	48
5	Ifield	47
6	Furnace Green	46
7	Langley Green & Tushmore	44
8	Pound Hill North & Forge Wood	42
9	Pound Hill South & Worth	36
10	Copthorne and Worth	33
11	Maidenbower	21

Which road in Black Corner has the highest level of crime?

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