Crime Statistics for Long Melford, Babergh, Suffolk, 2024

There were a total of 14 street level crime incidents in Long Melford in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Long Melford, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	6
Public Order	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Theft	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	14

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Long Melford. 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 Long Melford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brundon (1.86 miles)	81
Chilton (2.63 miles)	70
Newman’s Green (1.75 miles)	60
Cuckoo Tye (0.88 miles)	26
Acton (1.96 miles)	16
Acton Place (1.24 miles)	16
Long Melford	14
Liston (0.88 miles)	5
Great Waldingfield (2.77 miles)	4
Borley (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Long Melford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brundon	32
Chilton	30
Newman’s Green	24
Cuckoo Tye	12
Acton	8
Acton Place	8
Long Melford	6
Great Waldingfield	2
Liston	1
Borley	0

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

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 Long Melford 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 Long Melford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sudbury North East	60
2	Sudbury North West	59
3	Sudbury South East	54
4	Assington	54
5	Great Cornard	49
6	Long Melford	35
7	Stour Valley North	25
8	Chadacre	24
9	Lavenham	23
10	Stour Valley South	13

Which road in Long Melford has the highest level of crime?

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