Crime Statistics for Breach, Chichester, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Breach in October 2024. There were a total of 116 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	40
Violent Crime	28
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Burglary	12
Public Order	8
Shoplifting	8
Vehicle Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	116

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 Breach. 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 Breach

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Brighton (1.24 miles)	95
Hermitage (1.39 miles)	70
Breach	58
Emsworth (1.86 miles)	51
Inlands	29
Southbourne (0.88 miles)	27
Hambrook (0.62 miles)	26
Funtington (2.24 miles)	10
Bosham (2.24 miles)	7
Chidham (2.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Breach?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Brighton	31
Breach	28
Hermitage	18
Emsworth	18
Inlands	7
Southbourne	7
Hambrook	7
Funtington	5
Bosham	1
Chidham	1

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

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 Breach 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 Breach compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Battins	90
2	Warren Park	86
3	Bondfields	84
4	Bedhampton	67
5	St Faith's	63
6	Westbourne	52
7	Emsworth	52
8	Hayling East	39
9	Harbour Villages	25
10	The Witterings	17
11	Southbourne	13

Which road in Breach has the highest level of crime?

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