Crime Statistics for Southover, Lewes, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southover in September 2024. There were a total of 79 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Southover, 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 Crime29
Anti Social Behaviour13
Shoplifting7
Public Order6
Other Crime6
Criminal Damage Arson4
Other Theft4
Possession Of Weapons3
Drugs3
Burglary2
Vehicle Crime1
Robbery1
All Crime79

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Malling (1.24 miles)143
Wallands Park (0.88 miles)127
Southover79
Landport (0.88 miles)72
Hamsey (1.86 miles)47
Rushey Green (3.1 miles)16
Offham (1.96 miles)15
Cooksbridge (2.56 miles)3
Southease (2.56 miles)2
Iford (1.39 miles)1

11.22%
of Lewes Priory residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Southover?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Wallands Park55
South Malling51
Landport30
Southover29
Hamsey21
Offham6
Rushey Green5
Cooksbridge2
Iford1
Southease0

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

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 Southover 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 Southover compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Southover and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Southover is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Lewes Castle56
2Moulsecoomb and Bevendean56
3Peacehaven West42
4Peacehaven North36
5Lewes Bridge35
6Lewes Priory35
7Kingston29
8Woodingdean26
9East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs21
10Arlington19
11Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey19

Which road in Southover has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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