Crime Statistics for New Sprowston, Norwich, Norfolk, 2024

Crime statistics for New Sprowston, Norwich

There were a total of 274 street level crime incidents in New Sprowston in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in New Sprowston, 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 Crime108
Criminal Damage Arson40
Anti Social Behaviour35
Public Order21
Shoplifting20
Other Theft16
Possession Of Weapons9
Burglary8
Vehicle Crime5
Drugs4
Other Crime3
Robbery3
Theft From The Person2
All Crime274

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 Sprowston. 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 Sprowston

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Norwich (1.86 miles)755
New Catton (0.62 miles)662
Lakenham (2.48 miles)462
Mile Cross (1.39 miles)277
New Sprowston274
Sprowston (0.62 miles)180
Old Catton (0.62 miles)149
Hellesdon (1.96 miles)89
Horsham St Faith (2.78 miles)12
Spixworth (2.56 miles)7

17.81%
of Catton Grove residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Sprowston?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to New Sprowston 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
Sprowston75
Old Catton64
Hellesdon31
Horsham St Faith6
Spixworth5

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

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 Sprowston 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 Sprowston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Mile Cross83
2Mancroft81
3Wensum76
4Thorpe Hamlet72
5Crome70
6Sewell68
7Catton Grove61
8Hellesdon South East27
9Old Catton and Sprowston West19
10Hellesdon North West17
11Sprowston East8

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

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

Last updated: January 2024
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