Crime Statistics for Maidenbower, Crawley, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Maidenbower in September 2024. There were a total of 109 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 Maidenbower, 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	37
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Other Theft	14
Vehicle Crime	10
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Drugs	6
Public Order	6
Other Crime	4
Shoplifting	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	109

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 Maidenbower. 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 Maidenbower

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Crawley (1.39 miles)	619
Southgate (1.96 miles)	489
Tilgate (1.24 miles)	451
Gossops Green (2.56 miles)	346
Broadfield (2.55 miles)	141
Furnace Green (0.62 miles)	121
Maidenbower	108
Tinsley Green (2.56 miles)	104
Black Corner (2.49 miles)	68
Balcombe Lane (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Maidenbower?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crawley	265
Gossops Green	215
Southgate	171
Tilgate	157
Broadfield	53
Tinsley Green	48
Furnace Green	43
Maidenbower	37
Black Corner	30
Balcombe Lane	0

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

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 Maidenbower 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 Maidenbower compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Southgate	69
2	Broadfield	66
3	Northgate & West Green	66
4	Tilgate	65
5	Three Bridges	59
6	Furnace Green	46
7	Langley Green & Tushmore	44
8	Pound Hill North & Forge Wood	42
9	Pound Hill South & Worth	36
10	Ardingly and Balcombe	29
11	Maidenbower	21

Which road in Maidenbower has the highest level of crime?

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