Crime Statistics for Crawley, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Crawley in September 2024. There were a total of 756 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Crawley, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime265
Anti Social Behaviour110
Shoplifting96
Public Order60
Criminal Damage Arson50
Other Theft46
Drugs34
Burglary20
Vehicle Crime19
Possession Of Weapons16
Theft From The Person14
Other Crime12
Bicycle Theft8
Robbery6
All Crime756

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Langley Green (1.39 miles)652
Crawley619
Southgate (0.62 miles)489
Tilgate (0.62 miles)451
Manor Royal (1.39 miles)375
Gossops Green (1.24 miles)346
Ifield (1.39 miles)257
Broadfield (1.75 miles)165
Furnace Green (0.88 miles)121
Maidenbower (1.39 miles)108

29.8%
of Southgate (Crawley) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Crawley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Crawley265
Langley Green223
Gossops Green215
Southgate171
Tilgate157
Manor Royal123
Ifield94
Broadfield68
Furnace Green43
Maidenbower37

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

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 Crawley 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 Crawley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Southgate69
2Northgate & West Green66
3Tilgate65
4Three Bridges59
5Gossops Green & North East Broadfield56
6Ifield47
7Furnace Green46
8Langley Green & Tushmore44
9Pound Hill North & Forge Wood42
10Pound Hill South & Worth36
11Maidenbower21

Which road in Crawley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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