Crime Statistics for Down Park, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Down Park in September 2024. There were a total of 21 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Vehicle Crime	4
Shoplifting	4
Other Theft	2
Violent Crime	2
Public Order	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	21

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 Down Park. 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 Down Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fernhill (2.63 miles)	161
Black Corner (2.56 miles)	68
Shipley Bridge (2.24 miles)	60
Furnace Wood (1.39 miles)	39
Copthorne (1.39 miles)	39
Crawley Down (0.88 miles)	34
Felbridge (1.96 miles)	29
Down Park	21
Domewood (1.39 miles)	11
Turners Hill (1.96 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Down Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Black Corner	30
Copthorne	25
Shipley Bridge	24
Fernhill	16
Felbridge	8
Furnace Wood	7
Crawley Down	6
Down Park	2
Domewood	2
Turners Hill	1

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

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 Down Park 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 Down Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Furnace Green	46
2	Langley Green & Tushmore	44
3	East Grinstead Baldwins	42
4	Pound Hill North & Forge Wood	42
5	Pound Hill South & Worth	36
6	Felbridge	36
7	Copthorne and Worth	33
8	Ardingly and Balcombe	29
9	Maidenbower	21
10	East Grinstead Herontye	16
11	Crawley Down and Turners Hill	14

Which road in Down Park has the highest level of crime?

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