Crime Statistics for Felpham, Arun, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Felpham in August 2024. There were a total of 181 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 Felpham, 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	84
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Public Order	18
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Other Theft	13
Burglary	8
Shoplifting	7
Drugs	6
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	181

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Bersted (1.24 miles)	379
Bognor Regis (1.39 miles)	237
Felpham	127
Shripney (1.75 miles)	109
Burndell (2.24 miles)	90
Horsemere Green (2.77 miles)	59
Barnham (2.56 miles)	36
Bilsham (1.75 miles)	29
Colworth (2.77 miles)	20
Ancton (1.86 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Felpham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Bersted	136
Bognor Regis	102
Felpham	84
Shripney	30
Burndell	17
Horsemere Green	10
Bilsham	9
Colworth	8
Barnham	6
Ancton	6

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

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 Felpham 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 Felpham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Felpham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Felpham is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hotham	70
2	Marine	70
3	Pevensey	61
4	Orchard	50
5	Bersted	49
6	Felpham West	46
7	Felpham East	27
8	Barnham	26
9	Aldwick East	22
10	Aldwick West	13
11	Middleton-on-Sea	13

Which road in Felpham has the highest level of crime?

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