Crime Statistics for Ashdown Forest, Wealden, East Sussex, 2024

Crime statistics for Ashdown Forest, Wealden

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in March 2024. The largest category was Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft1
All Crime1

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ashdown Forest. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Ashdown Forest

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ford’s Green (1.96 miles)8
Nutley (1.96 miles)8
Cackle Street (near Nutley) (2.48 miles)2
Chelwood Gate (2.55 miles)1
Ashdown Forest1
Chuck Hatch (2.24 miles)0
Duddleswell (1.96 miles)0
Newbridge (1.24 miles)0
Coleman’s Hatch (1.86 miles)0
Jumper’s Town (1.39 miles)0

11.05%
of Hartfield residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ashdown Forest?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ford’s Green2
Nutley2
Chelwood Gate1
Cackle Street (near Nutley)0
Ashdown Forest0
Chuck Hatch0
Duddleswell0
Newbridge0
Coleman’s Hatch0
Jumper’s Town0

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

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 Ashdown Forest 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 Ashdown Forest compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ashdown Forest and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Ashdown Forest is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Forest Row34
2Hartfield32
3Ashurst Wood30
4Crowborough North27
5Maresfield24
6Crowborough Jarvis Brook20
7Crowborough Central17
8Crowborough South East14
9Crowborough St Johns7

Which road in Ashdown Forest has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: March 2024
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