Crime Statistics for Temple Bar, Chichester, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Temple Bar in October 2024. There were a total of 32 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 Temple Bar, 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	8
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Burglary	7
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	32

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 Temple Bar. 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 Temple Bar

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Portfield (1.75 miles)	348
Maudlin (0.88 miles)	161
Shopwyke (1.39 miles)	157
Tangmere (0.88 miles)	58
Temple Bar	32
Boxgrove (0.62 miles)	31
Halnaker (0.88 miles)	17
Crockerhill (1.86 miles)	16
Waterbeach (0.62 miles)	7
Aldingbourne (2.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Temple Bar?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Portfield	136
Maudlin	55
Shopwyke	51
Tangmere	10
Halnaker	9
Temple Bar	8
Boxgrove	7
Crockerhill	5
Waterbeach	2
Aldingbourne	1

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

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 Temple Bar 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 Temple Bar compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Temple Bar and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Temple Bar is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Chichester East	52
2	Bersted	49
3	Lavant	42
4	Chichester South	39
5	Goodwood	38
6	Chichester Central	37
7	Chichester North	32
8	North Mundham & Tangmere	30
9	Chichester West	29
10	Barnham	26
11	Pagham	10

Which road in Temple Bar has the highest level of crime?

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