Crime Statistics for Henfield, Horsham, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Henfield in September 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 Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Henfield, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	3
Shoplifting	2
Public Order	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	11

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 Henfield. 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 Henfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shermanbury (1.96 miles)	20
Henfield	11
Nep Town (0.62 miles)	10
Albourne (3.1 miles)	2
Albourne Green (3.1 miles)	2
Littleworth (2.78 miles)	2
High Cross (1.96 miles)	1
Blackstone (1.86 miles)	1
Partridge Green (2.24 miles)	1
Ashurst (2.48 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Henfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Henfield	3
Nep Town	2
Albourne	1
Albourne Green	1
Shermanbury	0
Littleworth	0
High Cross	0
Blackstone	0
Partridge Green	0
Ashurst	0

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

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 Henfield 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 Henfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hangleton and Knoll	49
2	Hillside	45
3	Hurstpierpoint and Downs	36
4	Henfield	21
5	Burgess Hill Victoria	21
6	Steyning & Ashurst	21
7	Bolney	17
8	Bramber, Upper Beeding & Woodmancote	13
9	West Chiltington, Thakeham & Ashington	12
10	Cowfold, Shermanbury & West Grinstead	12
11	Buckingham	8

Which road in Henfield has the highest level of crime?

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