Crime Statistics for Findon Valley, Worthing, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Findon Valley in October 2024. There were a total of 81 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	23
Violent Crime	20
Public Order	10
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Other Theft	7
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Possession Of Weapons	3
Other Crime	2
All Crime	81

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 Findon Valley. 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 Findon Valley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Broadwater (1.39 miles)	744
Durrington-on-Sea Sta (1.96 miles)	381
Goring-by-Sea (2.24 miles)	294
Salvington (0.62 miles)	201
West Durrington (1.47 miles)	173
Findon Valley	81
Nepcote (1.39 miles)	8
Findon (1.39 miles)	8
Patching (3.1 miles)	6
Beggars Bush (1.96 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Findon Valley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Broadwater	263
Goring-by-Sea	168
Durrington-on-Sea Sta	122
West Durrington	61
Salvington	60
Findon Valley	20
Patching	4
Beggars Bush	1
Nepcote	0
Findon	0

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

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 Findon Valley 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 Findon Valley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Gaisford	43
2	Castle	40
3	Northbrook	39
4	Peverel	32
5	Selden	30
6	Offington	27
7	Tarring	26
8	Broadwater	25
9	Salvington	23
10	Durrington	20
11	Goring	13

Which road in Findon Valley has the highest level of crime?

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