Crime Statistics for Stowmarket, Suffolk, 2024

Crime statistics for Stowmarket, Stowmarket

There were a total of 109 street level crime incidents in Stowmarket in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Stowmarket, 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 Crime48
Shoplifting17
Other Theft10
Public Order10
Vehicle Crime5
Anti Social Behaviour5
Criminal Damage Arson5
Burglary3
Drugs2
Other Crime2
Bicycle Theft1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime109

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 Stowmarket. 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 Stowmarket

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Stowmarket109
Combs Ford (0.62 miles)49
Stowupland (1.39 miles)31
Dagworth (1.96 miles)17
Combs (1.39 miles)15
Forward Green (2.55 miles)1
Great Finborough (2.55 miles)0
Battisford (2.48 miles)0
Little London (1.96 miles)0
Moats Tye (1.96 miles)0

5.35%
of Combs Ford residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Stowmarket?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Stowmarket48
Combs Ford20
Stowupland19
Dagworth4
Combs3
Forward Green0
Great Finborough0
Battisford0
Little London0
Moats Tye0

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

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 Stowmarket 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 Stowmarket compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stowmarket and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Stowmarket is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1St Peter's65
2Combs Ford51
3Stow Thorney46
4Chilton41
5Haughley, Stowupland & Wetherden29
6Onehouse25
7Stonham19
8Battisford & Ringshall19
9Needham Market19
10Mendlesham17
11Rattlesden11

Which road in Stowmarket has the highest level of crime?

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

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