Crime Statistics for California, Ipswich, Suffolk, 2024

Crime statistics for California, Ipswich

There were a total of 226 street level crime incidents in California in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in California, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime101
Criminal Damage Arson22
Vehicle Crime19
Other Theft19
Anti Social Behaviour17
Public Order16
Burglary7
Bicycle Theft7
Shoplifting5
Drugs5
Other Crime4
Possession Of Weapons3
Theft From The Person1
All Crime226

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ipswich (1.24 miles)546
Stoke (1.39 miles)314
California226
Broke Hall (0.88 miles)153
Rushmere St Andrew (0.88 miles)128
Racecourse (1.24 miles)112
Greenwich (1.39 miles)94
Warren Heath (1.75 miles)71
Rushmere Street (1.75 miles)53
Kesgrave (1.96 miles)34

17.59%
of St John's (Ipswich) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near California?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ipswich218
Stoke132
California101
Broke Hall69
Rushmere St Andrew62
Racecourse57
Greenwich49
Rushmere Street29
Warren Heath27
Kesgrave15

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

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 California 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 California compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Westgate86
2Alexandra79
3Bridge77
4Gipping74
5Stoke Park72
6Holywells71
7Gainsborough61
8Rushmere42
9Bixley42
10St John's37
11Rushmere St Andrew3

Which road in California has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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