Crime Statistics for Oakhill, Horsham, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Oakhill in September 2024. There were a total of 181 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 Oakhill, 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	56
Shoplifting	54
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Public Order	14
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Theft	6
Drugs	6
Vehicle Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Other Crime	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	181

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 Oakhill. 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 Oakhill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Horsham (0.88 miles)	386
Oakhill	181
The Common (1.39 miles)	179
Little Haven (1.24 miles)	159
Tower Hill (1.39 miles)	37
Broadbridge Heath (2.56 miles)	30
Doomsday Green (0.88 miles)	21
Monk’s Gate (2.24 miles)	4
Coolhurst Wood (1.39 miles)	3
Mannings Heath (1.76 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Oakhill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Horsham	135
The Common	93
Oakhill	56
Little Haven	53
Tower Hill	19
Broadbridge Heath	12
Monk’s Gate	1
Coolhurst Wood	1
Mannings Heath	1
Doomsday Green	0

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

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 Oakhill 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 Oakhill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Oakhill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Oakhill is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Denne	40
2	Roffey North	34
3	Itchingfield, Slinfold & Warnham	30
4	Roffey South	28
5	Broadbridge Heath	28
6	Forest	25
7	Trafalgar	25
8	Nuthurst & Lower Beeding	21
9	Southwater North	14
10	Holbrook West	14
11	Holbrook East	9

Which road in Oakhill has the highest level of crime?

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