Crime Statistics for Rustington, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rustington in October 2024. There were a total of 279 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 Rustington, 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	83
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Vehicle Crime	44
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Other Theft	20
Burglary	20
Shoplifting	20
Drugs	8
Theft From The Person	4
Public Order	4
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	279

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 Rustington. 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 Rustington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Toddington (1.39 miles)	520
Littlehampton (1.86 miles)	245
Rustington	139
Poling (1.39 miles)	133
Angmering (1.39 miles)	113
Hangleton (1.96 miles)	49
Ferring (2.48 miles)	32
Hammerpot (1.96 miles)	30
Poling Corner (1.96 miles)	15
Crossbush (2.78 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Rustington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Toddington	190
Rustington	83
Littlehampton	82
Poling	42
Angmering	33
Ferring	27
Hangleton	14
Hammerpot	12
Poling Corner	9
Crossbush	2

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

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 Rustington 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 Rustington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rustington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rustington is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	River	72
2	Courtwick with Toddington	71
3	Beach	45
4	Yapton	36
5	Angmering & Findon	35
6	Brookfield	32
7	Arundel & Walberton	31
8	Rustington East	29
9	East Preston	26
10	Rustington West	22
11	Ferring	20

Which road in Rustington has the highest level of crime?

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