Crime Statistics for Shoreham Beach, Adur, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shoreham Beach in October 2024. There were a total of 394 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	108
Violent Crime	97
Anti Social Behaviour	64
Public Order	36
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Vehicle Crime	16
Other Theft	12
Drugs	12
Bicycle Theft	8
Burglary	7
Possession Of Weapons	6
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	394

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 Shoreham Beach. 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 Shoreham Beach

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Southern Cross (1.96 miles)	226
Portslade Village (2.24 miles)	223
Shoreham Beach	197
North Lancing (2.56 miles)	190
Portslade-By-Sea (1.96 miles)	172
Fishersgate (1.96 miles)	172
Mile Oak (2.63 miles)	167
Lancing (2.48 miles)	163
South Lancing (2.48 miles)	163
Southwick (1.39 miles)	124

Where are the most violent places near Shoreham Beach?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Southern Cross	97
Shoreham Beach	97
Portslade Village	72
North Lancing	68
Portslade-By-Sea	57
Fishersgate	57
Lancing	56
South Lancing	56
Mile Oak	54
Southwick	32

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

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 Shoreham Beach 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 Shoreham Beach compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Eastbrook	60
2	Mash Barn	47
3	Hillside	45
4	St Mary's	45
5	Churchill	43
6	Southwick Green	36
7	Marine	35
8	Widewater	35
9	Southlands	33
10	Manor	24
11	St Nicolas	20

Which road in Shoreham Beach has the highest level of crime?

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