Crime Statistics for Shelland, Suffolk, 2024

Crime statistics for Shelland, Shelland

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in January 2024. The largest category was Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft1
All Crime1

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 Shelland. 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 Shelland

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Dagworth (2.55 miles)17
Base Green (1.96 miles)3
Borley Green (0.62 miles)2
Harleston (0.62 miles)1
Rattlesden (1.96 miles)1
Shelland1
Buxhall Fen Street (0.62 miles)1
Clopton Green (1.86 miles)1
Drinkstone Green (2.48 miles)0
Great Finborough (1.96 miles)0

5.81%
of Rattlesden residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Shelland?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Dagworth4
Base Green1
Borley Green0
Harleston0
Rattlesden0
Shelland0
Buxhall Fen Street0
Clopton Green0
Drinkstone Green0
Great Finborough0

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

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 Shelland 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 Shelland compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shelland and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Shelland have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is St Peter's.

#WardScore
1St Peter's65
2Combs Ford51
3Stow Thorney46
4Chilton41
5Haughley, Stowupland & Wetherden29
6Onehouse25
7Battisford & Ringshall19
8Needham Market19
9Thurston15
10Elmswell & Woolpit15
11Rattlesden11

Which road in Shelland has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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