Crime Statistics for Bowthorpe, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

There were a total of 61 street level crime incidents in Bowthorpe in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bowthorpe, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	21
Vehicle Crime	12
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Public Order	5
Other Theft	3
Robbery	3
Shoplifting	3
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	61

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 Bowthorpe. 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 Bowthorpe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mile Cross (2.55 miles)	277
New Costessey (0.88 miles)	170
Earlham (1.39 miles)	142
Bunker’s Hill (0.62 miles)	136
Costessey Park (1.39 miles)	66
Bowthorpe	61
Colney (1.39 miles)	26
Costessey (1.86 miles)	25
Little Melton (1.96 miles)	11
Bawburgh (1.39 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Bowthorpe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mile Cross	107
New Costessey	85
Earlham	52
Bunker’s Hill	49
Costessey Park	23
Bowthorpe	21
Colney	15
Costessey	12
Little Melton	6
Bawburgh	4

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

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 Bowthorpe 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 Bowthorpe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bowthorpe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Bowthorpe is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mile Cross	83
2	University	65
3	Bowthorpe	61
4	Nelson	46
5	Old Costessey	34
6	New Costessey	28
7	Cringleford	24
8	Hellesdon North West	17
9	Hethersett	16
10	Drayton South	9
11	Taverham South	1

Which road in Bowthorpe has the highest level of crime?

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