Crime Statistics for Lakenham, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

Crime statistics for Lakenham, Norwich

There were a total of 462 street level crime incidents in Lakenham in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lakenham, 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 Crime146
Shoplifting108
Anti Social Behaviour62
Public Order35
Other Theft31
Criminal Damage Arson14
Drugs13
Theft From The Person11
Bicycle Theft10
Burglary10
Possession Of Weapons8
Other Crime7
Vehicle Crime5
Robbery2
All Crime462

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lakenham. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Lakenham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Norwich (0.62 miles)755
New Catton (1.86 miles)662
Lakenham462
Mile Cross (2.24 miles)277
New Sprowston (2.48 miles)274
Earlham (2.55 miles)169
Long John’s Hill (0.62 miles)116
Eaton (1.39 miles)46
Arminghall (2.24 miles)3
Caistor St Edmund (2.48 miles)3

20.2%
of Town Close residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lakenham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
New Catton247
Norwich242
Lakenham146
New Sprowston108
Mile Cross107
Earlham66
Long John’s Hill59
Eaton15
Arminghall2
Caistor St Edmund2

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

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 Lakenham 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 Lakenham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lakenham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Lakenham is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Mancroft81
2Wensum76
3Thorpe Hamlet72
4Crome70
5University65
6Lakenham55
7Town Close47
8Nelson46
9Eaton24
10Thorpe St Andrew South East18
11Poringland, Framinghams & Trowse11

Which road in Lakenham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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