Crime Statistics for Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Goring-by-Sea in October 2024. There were a total of 588 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 Goring-by-Sea, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime168
Anti Social Behaviour96
Shoplifting96
Public Order60
Criminal Damage Arson48
Drugs28
Other Crime24
Other Theft20
Vehicle Crime16
Robbery8
Possession Of Weapons8
Burglary8
Bicycle Theft4
Theft From The Person4
All Crime588

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 Goring-by-Sea. 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 Goring-by-Sea

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Broadwater (1.96 miles)744
Durrington-on-Sea Sta (0.62 miles)381
Goring-by-Sea294
Salvington (1.75 miles)201
West Durrington (1.17 miles)173
Angmering (3.16 miles)113
Findon Valley (2.24 miles)81
Hangleton (1.86 miles)49
Ferring (1.39 miles)32
Patching (2.63 miles)6

11.46%
of Castle (Worthing) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Goring-by-Sea?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Broadwater263
Goring-by-Sea168
Durrington-on-Sea Sta122
West Durrington61
Salvington60
Angmering33
Ferring27
Findon Valley20
Hangleton14
Patching4

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Goring-by-Sea?

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 Goring-by-Sea 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 Goring-by-Sea compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Goring-by-Sea and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Goring-by-Sea is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Heene45
2Gaisford43
3Castle40
4Northbrook39
5Angmering & Findon35
6Tarring26
7Salvington23
8Durrington20
9Ferring20
10Goring13
11Marine13

Which road in Goring-by-Sea has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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