Crime Statistics for Sporle, Breckland, Norfolk, 2024

Crime statistics for Sporle, Breckland

There were a total of 4 street level crime incidents in Sporle in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Possession Of Weapons, followed by Public Order.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Possession Of Weapons1
Public Order1
Violent Crime1
Other Theft1
All Crime4

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 Sporle. 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 Sporle

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ivy Todd (3.34 miles)10
Necton (2.24 miles)10
Sporle4
Little Dunham (1.39 miles)3
North Pickenham (3.34 miles)1
Little Fransham (3.77 miles)0
Drury Square (4.47 miles)0
Beeston (4.47 miles)0
Great Dunham (2.63 miles)0
Great Fransham (3.34 miles)0

8.15%
of Swaffham residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sporle?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ivy Todd4
Necton4
Sporle1
Little Dunham1
North Pickenham0
Little Fransham0
Drury Square0
Beeston0
Great Dunham0
Great Fransham0

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

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 Sporle 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 Sporle compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sporle and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Residents in Sporle have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Airfield.

#WardScore
1Swaffham40
2Bedingfeld26
3Watton22
4Ashill18
5Launditch18
6Nar Valley18
7Shipdham-with-Scarning15
8Hermitage15
9Lincoln15
10Necton10
11Airfield4

Which road in Sporle has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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