Crime Statistics for South Heighton, Lewes, East Sussex, 2024

There were a total of 113 street level crime incidents in South Heighton in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	41
Violent Crime	27
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Public Order	9
Other Theft	5
Other Crime	5
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Drugs	4
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	113

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 South Heighton. 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 South Heighton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newhaven (0.88 miles)	120
South Heighton	113
Peacehaven (2.55 miles)	59
Harbour Heights (1.75 miles)	44
Telscombe Cliffs (3.16 miles)	40
Tarring Neville (0.88 miles)	20
Peacehaven Heights (2.24 miles)	16
Bishopstone (1.39 miles)	8
Norton (1.39 miles)	8
Southease (2.63 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near South Heighton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newhaven	39
Peacehaven	28
South Heighton	27
Harbour Heights	23
Telscombe Cliffs	21
Tarring Neville	7
Peacehaven Heights	7
Bishopstone	4
Norton	4
Southease	1

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

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 South Heighton 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 South Heighton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Newhaven South	60
2	Newhaven North	49
3	Peacehaven East	42
4	Peacehaven West	42
5	Seaford Central	36
6	Peacehaven North	36
7	Seaford South	31
8	Ouse Valley & Ringmer	23
9	Seaford North	16
10	Seaford East	14
11	Seaford West	3

Which road in South Heighton has the highest level of crime?

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