Crime Statistics for Birling Gap, Wealden, East Sussex, 2024

There were a total of 6 street level crime incidents in Birling Gap in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Public Order	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Other Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
Violent Crime	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 Birling Gap. 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 Birling Gap

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hampden Park (4.24 miles)	115
Downside (2.95 miles)	112
Meads (2.71 miles)	36
Foulride Green (4.15 miles)	29
Wannock (3.97 miles)	17
Exceat (3.19 miles)	15
Birling Gap	6
Friston (0.87 miles)	3
South Downs (1.48 miles)	2
Beachy Head (1.84 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Birling Gap?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hampden Park	42
Downside	42
Foulride Green	15
Wannock	9
Meads	8
Exceat	7
Birling Gap	1
Friston	1
South Downs	1
Beachy Head	0

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

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 Birling Gap 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 Birling Gap compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Devonshire	79
2	Upperton	44
3	Old Town	43
4	Meads	37
5	Seaford Central	36
6	Seaford South	31
7	Ratton	25
8	Upper Willingdon	20
9	Seaford North	16
10	South Downs	15
11	Seaford East	14

Which road in Birling Gap has the highest level of crime?

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