Crime Statistics for Ashurst Wood, Mid Sussex, East Sussex, 2024

There were a total of 6 street level crime incidents in Ashurst Wood in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	1
Violent Crime	1
Other Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	6

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blackwell (2.24 miles)	110
Stonequarry (1.96 miles)	95
Baldwins Hill (2.63 miles)	81
Dormans Park (2.78 miles)	56
Forest Row (1.39 miles)	10
Highgate (1.39 miles)	10
Ashurst Wood	6
Hammerwood (2.24 miles)	2
Charlwood (1.75 miles)	0
Tompset’s Bank (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Ashurst Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blackwell	35
Baldwins Hill	29
Stonequarry	28
Dormans Park	19
Forest Row	2
Highgate	2
Hammerwood	2
Ashurst Wood	1
Charlwood	0
Tompset’s Bank	0

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

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 Ashurst Wood 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 Ashurst Wood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Lingfield and Crowhurst	80
2	East Grinstead Town	54
3	East Grinstead Baldwins	42
4	Dormansland and Felcourt	36
5	East Grinstead Ashplats	35
6	Forest Row	34
7	Hartfield	32
8	Ashurst Wood	30
9	East Grinstead Imberhorne	22
10	East Grinstead Herontye	16
11	Crawley Down and Turners Hill	14

Which road in Ashurst Wood has the highest level of crime?

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