Crime Statistics for Shermanbury, Horsham, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shermanbury in September 2024. There were a total of 38 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Theft	8
Public Order	4
Burglary	4
Other Crime	2
All Crime	38

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 Shermanbury. 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 Shermanbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shermanbury	20
Henfield (1.96 miles)	11
Nep Town (2.56 miles)	10
Kent Street (1.75 miles)	5
Littleworth (0.88 miles)	2
Crosspost (3.62 miles)	1
High Cross (2.77 miles)	1
Blackstone (3.1 miles)	1
Partridge Green (0.62 miles)	1
Ashurst (2.63 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Shermanbury?

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

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

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

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 Shermanbury 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 Shermanbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hurstpierpoint and Downs	36
2	Henfield	21
3	Burgess Hill Victoria	21
4	Steyning & Ashurst	21
5	Nuthurst & Lower Beeding	21
6	Burgess Hill Dunstall	20
7	Southwater South & Shipley	17
8	Bolney	17
9	Bramber, Upper Beeding & Woodmancote	13
10	West Chiltington, Thakeham & Ashington	12
11	Cowfold, Shermanbury & West Grinstead	12

Which road in Shermanbury has the highest level of crime?

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