Crime Statistics for Handcross, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Handcross in October 2024. There were a total of 11 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 Handcross, 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 Crime5
Anti Social Behaviour3
Burglary1
Public Order1
Other Theft1
All Crime11

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 Handcross. 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 Handcross

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Broadfield (3.17 miles)165
Buchan Hill (2.56 miles)41
Tilgate Forest Row (1.86 miles)15
Handcross11
Brook Street (3.1 miles)9
Pease Pottage (1.96 miles)6
Balcombe (3.16 miles)3
Lower Beeding (2.77 miles)2
Colgate (2.63 miles)1
Warninglid (1.96 miles)1

26.54%
of Broadfield (Crawley) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Handcross?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Broadfield68
Buchan Hill22
Tilgate Forest Row6
Handcross5
Brook Street3
Pease Pottage2
Lower Beeding1
Colgate1
Balcombe0
Warninglid0

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

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 Handcross 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 Handcross compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Handcross and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Handcross is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Southgate69
2Broadfield66
3Tilgate65
4Three Bridges59
5Bewbush & North Broadfield57
6Gossops Green & North East Broadfield56
7Furnace Green46
8Ardingly and Balcombe29
9Colgate & Rusper28
10Nuthurst & Lower Beeding21
11Haywards Heath Lucastes12

Which road in Handcross has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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