Crime Statistics for Little Ouse, Breckland, Norfolk, 2025

Is Little Ouse rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for February 2025. There were a total of 20 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Violent Crime	5
Public Order	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	20

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 Little Ouse. 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 Little Ouse

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Ouse	20
Croxton (3.23 miles)	11
Ixworth Thorpe (6.03 miles)	4
Barningham (6.38 miles)	4
Honington (4.93 miles)	4
Bowbeck (5.68 miles)	2
Coney Weston (5.31 miles)	0
Barnham (1.12 miles)	0
Stonebridge (6.53 miles)	0
Bridgham (5.65 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Little Ouse?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Ouse	5
Croxton	5
Ixworth Thorpe	4
Honington	3
Barningham	2
Bowbeck	1
Coney Weston	0
Barnham	0
Stonebridge	0
Bridgham	0

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

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 Little Ouse 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 Little Ouse compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Thetford Burrell	63
2	Thetford Priory	60
3	Brandon Central	42
4	Ixworth	40
5	Thetford Castle	38
6	Brandon East	33
7	Lakenheath	32
8	Forest	25
9	Bardwell	21
10	Thetford Boudica	20
11	Pakenham & Troston	15

Which road in Little Ouse has the highest level of crime?

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