Crime Statistics for Paston, Norfolk, 2024

Crime statistics for Paston, Paston

There were a total of 2 street level crime incidents in Paston in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson1
Violent Crime1
All Crime2

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 Paston. 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 Paston

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

LocationCrime Incidents
North Walsham (3.51 miles)51
Spa Common (3.1 miles)49
Knapton (1.24 miles)5
Broomholm (1.39 miles)4
Trunch (2.48 miles)4
Bacton (1.39 miles)4
Bacton Green (1.24 miles)4
Paston Green (0.62 miles)3
Paston2
Lower Street (3.77 miles)0

3.05%
of Bacton (North Norfolk) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Paston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
North Walsham25
Spa Common25
Broomholm3
Bacton3
Bacton Green3
Trunch1
Paston Green1
Paston1
Knapton0
Lower Street0

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

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 Paston 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 Paston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1North Walsham Market Cross21
2Stalham21
3North Walsham East17
4Happisburgh16
5Mundesley15
6North Walsham West12
7Bacton8
8Roughton7
9Worstead3
10Poppyland1

Which road in Paston has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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