Crime Statistics for Tilgate, Crawley, West Sussex, 2024

Crime statistics for Tilgate, Crawley

There were a total of 325 street level crime incidents in Tilgate in January 2024. 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime111
Shoplifting59
Anti Social Behaviour39
Public Order35
Vehicle Crime17
Other Theft17
Criminal Damage Arson14
Burglary14
Drugs9
Possession Of Weapons3
Other Crime3
Bicycle Theft2
Robbery1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime325

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 Tilgate. 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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Southgate (0.88 miles)662
Crawley (0.62 miles)590
Tilgate325
Gossops Green (1.39 miles)317
Ifield (1.76 miles)270
Bewbush (1.86 miles)190
Broadfield (1.39 miles)183
Furnace Green (0.62 miles)140
Maidenbower (1.24 miles)53
Buchan Hill (1.75 miles)37

19.47%
of Tilgate residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Southgate222
Crawley188
Gossops Green120
Tilgate111
Ifield97
Broadfield77
Bewbush70
Furnace Green63
Maidenbower19
Buchan Hill18

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.

#WardScore
1Southgate69
2Broadfield66
3Northgate & West Green66
4Tilgate65
5Three Bridges59
6Gossops Green & North East Broadfield56
7Ifield47
8Furnace Green46
9Langley Green & Tushmore44
10Pound Hill South & Worth36
11Maidenbower21

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.

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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