Crime Statistics for Ferring, Arun, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ferring in October 2024. There were a total of 62 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ferring, 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	27
Shoplifting	8
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Public Order	7
Anti Social Behaviour	4
All Crime	62

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 Ferring. 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 Ferring

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Durrington-on-Sea Sta (1.96 miles)	381
Goring-by-Sea (1.39 miles)	294
Salvington (3.1 miles)	201
West Durrington (2.15 miles)	173
Rustington (2.48 miles)	139
Angmering (2.24 miles)	113
Hangleton (0.88 miles)	49
Ferring	32
Hammerpot (2.63 miles)	30
Patching (2.56 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Ferring?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Goring-by-Sea	168
Durrington-on-Sea Sta	122
Rustington	83
West Durrington	61
Salvington	60
Angmering	33
Ferring	27
Hangleton	14
Hammerpot	12
Patching	4

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

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 Ferring 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 Ferring compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ferring and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ferring is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	40
2	Northbrook	39
3	Angmering & Findon	35
4	Rustington East	29
5	East Preston	26
6	Tarring	26
7	Rustington West	22
8	Durrington	20
9	Ferring	20
10	Goring	13
11	Marine	13

Which road in Ferring has the highest level of crime?

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