Crime Statistics for Cringleford, Norfolk, 2025

Is Cringleford rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for February 2025. There were a total of 32 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cringleford, 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	14
Other Theft	6
Public Order	3
Shoplifting	3
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Other Crime	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	32

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bunker’s Hill (2.56 miles)	217
Earlham (1.86 miles)	159
Long John’s Hill (2.55 miles)	96
Eaton (1.39 miles)	73
Colney (1.39 miles)	44
Cringleford	32
Little Melton (1.96 miles)	16
Hethersett (2.55 miles)	12
Intwood (0.62 miles)	8
Lower East Carleton (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Cringleford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bunker’s Hill	99
Earlham	74
Long John’s Hill	49
Eaton	27
Colney	18
Cringleford	14
Intwood	8
Little Melton	7
Hethersett	4
Lower East Carleton	0

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

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 Cringleford 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 Cringleford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Wensum	76
2	University	65
3	Bowthorpe	61
4	Town Close	47
5	Nelson	46
6	Cringleford	24
7	Eaton	24
8	Hethersett	16
9	Mulbarton & Stoke Holy Cross	12
10	Poringland, Framinghams & Trowse	11
11	Newton Flotman	7

Which road in Cringleford has the highest level of crime?

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