Crime Statistics for New Costessey, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

Crime statistics for New Costessey, Norwich

There were a total of 170 street level crime incidents in New Costessey in January 2024. 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 New Costessey, 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 Crime85
Anti Social Behaviour20
Criminal Damage Arson19
Shoplifting14
Public Order7
Vehicle Crime7
Other Theft5
Burglary4
Other Crime3
Bicycle Theft2
Drugs2
Possession Of Weapons1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime170

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 New Costessey. 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 New Costessey

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Mile Cross (1.86 miles)277
New Costessey170
Earlham (1.39 miles)169
Bunker’s Hill (0.62 miles)149
Hellesdon (1.75 miles)89
Bowthorpe (0.88 miles)80
Costessey Park (1.39 miles)58
Colney (1.86 miles)36
Costessey (1.39 miles)25
Drayton (1.86 miles)11

20.51%
of Bowthorpe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Costessey?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Mile Cross107
New Costessey85
Bunker’s Hill77
Earlham66
Hellesdon31
Bowthorpe31
Costessey Park22
Colney21
Costessey9
Drayton4

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

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 New Costessey 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 New Costessey compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Costessey and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. New Costessey is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Mile Cross83
2Wensum76
3University65
4Bowthorpe61
5Old Costessey34
6New Costessey28
7Hellesdon South East27
8Hellesdon North West17
9Hethersett16
10Drayton South9
11Taverham South1

Which road in New Costessey has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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