Crime Statistics for Furnace Wood, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Furnace Wood in September 2024. There were a total of 39 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	11
Vehicle Crime	8
Violent Crime	7
Other Theft	5
Shoplifting	4
Burglary	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	39

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 Furnace Wood. 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 Furnace Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blackwell (2.48 miles)	124
Baldwins Hill (1.86 miles)	106
Furnace Wood	39
Copthorne (2.48 miles)	39
Crawley Down (1.39 miles)	34
Felbridge (0.62 miles)	29
Down Park (1.39 miles)	21
Felcourt (2.24 miles)	12
Domewood (0.88 miles)	11
Newchapel (1.96 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Furnace Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blackwell	49
Baldwins Hill	37
Copthorne	25
Felbridge	8
Furnace Wood	7
Crawley Down	6
Down Park	2
Felcourt	2
Domewood	2
Newchapel	2

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

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 Furnace Wood 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 Furnace Wood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Lingfield and Crowhurst	80
2	East Grinstead Town	54
3	East Grinstead Baldwins	42
4	Pound Hill North & Forge Wood	42
5	Dormansland and Felcourt	36
6	Felbridge	36
7	East Grinstead Ashplats	35
8	Copthorne and Worth	33
9	East Grinstead Imberhorne	22
10	East Grinstead Herontye	16
11	Crawley Down and Turners Hill	14

Which road in Furnace Wood has the highest level of crime?

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