Crime Statistics for Southgate, Crawley, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southgate in October 2024. There were a total of 799 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 Southgate, 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	272
Shoplifting	141
Public Order	89
Anti Social Behaviour	66
Other Theft	44
Vehicle Crime	44
Drugs	34
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Burglary	23
Other Crime	18
Theft From The Person	15
Robbery	12
Possession Of Weapons	6
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	799

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 Southgate. 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 Southgate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Crawley (0.62 miles)	881
Manor Royal (1.24 miles)	777
Southgate	768
Langley Green (1.24 miles)	436
Tilgate (0.88 miles)	406
Furnace Green (1.39 miles)	294
Gossops Green (0.62 miles)	270
Ifield (0.88 miles)	259
Broadfield (1.39 miles)	165
Bewbush (1.39 miles)	148

Where are the most violent places near Southgate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crawley	324
Southgate	272
Furnace Green	240
Manor Royal	238
Tilgate	179
Langley Green	140
Gossops Green	99
Ifield	84
Broadfield	68
Bewbush	54

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

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 Southgate 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 Southgate compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Southgate	69
2	Broadfield	66
3	Northgate & West Green	66
4	Tilgate	65
5	Three Bridges	59
6	Bewbush & North Broadfield	57
7	Gossops Green & North East Broadfield	56
8	Ifield	47
9	Furnace Green	46
10	Langley Green & Tushmore	44
11	Colgate & Rusper	28

Which road in Southgate has the highest level of crime?

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