Crime Statistics for Hassocks, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, 2025

Is Hassocks rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 24 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Burglary.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	6
Burglary	4
Violent Crime	4
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Public Order	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Crime	1
All Crime	24

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Hassocks. 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 Hassocks

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burgess Hill (2.56 miles)	156
Abbotsford (3.11 miles)	113
Keymer (0.62 miles)	35
Hassocks	24
Bedlam Street (1.86 miles)	3
Streat (3.1 miles)	1
Saddlescombe (3.1 miles)	0
Plumpton Green (3.77 miles)	0
Albourne (2.56 miles)	0
Albourne Green (2.56 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Hassocks?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Burgess Hill	37
Abbotsford	36
Keymer	7
Hassocks	4
Bedlam Street	2
Streat	0
Saddlescombe	0
Plumpton Green	0
Albourne	0
Albourne Green	0

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

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 Hassocks 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 Hassocks compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hassocks and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hassocks is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burgess Hill Leylands	45
2	Burgess Hill Meeds	37
3	Hurstpierpoint and Downs	36
4	Hassocks	25
5	Burgess Hill St Andrews	22
6	Cuckfield	22
7	Burgess Hill Victoria	21
8	Burgess Hill Dunstall	20
9	Ditchling & Westmeston	10
10	Burgess Hill Franklands	9
11	Plumpton, Streat, East Chiltington & St John	6

Which road in Hassocks has the highest level of crime?

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