Crime Statistics for Tilgate, Crawley, West Sussex, 2025

Is Tilgate rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 392 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 Tilgate, 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	148
Shoplifting	53
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Public Order	38
Other Theft	28
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Drugs	20
Other Crime	11
Vehicle Crime	9
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	392

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Tilgate. 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 Tilgate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gossops Green (1.39 miles)	474
Southgate (0.88 miles)	458
Crawley (0.62 miles)	400
Tilgate	304
Bewbush (1.86 miles)	273
Broadfield (1.39 miles)	237
Ifield (1.76 miles)	213
Furnace Green (0.62 miles)	113
Maidenbower (1.24 miles)	59
Buchan Hill (1.75 miles)	33

Where are the most violent places near Tilgate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crawley	184
Gossops Green	183
Southgate	157
Tilgate	148
Ifield	105
Bewbush	86
Broadfield	79
Furnace Green	49
Buchan Hill	24
Maidenbower	23

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

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 Tilgate 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 Tilgate compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Southgate	69
2	Broadfield	66
3	Northgate & West Green	66
4	Tilgate	65
5	Three Bridges	59
6	Gossops Green & North East Broadfield	56
7	Ifield	47
8	Furnace Green	46
9	Langley Green & Tushmore	44
10	Pound Hill South & Worth	36
11	Maidenbower	21

Which road in Tilgate has the highest level of crime?

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