Crime Statistics for Balcombe, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, 2024

There were a total of 4 street level crime incidents in Balcombe in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Violent Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	4

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 Balcombe. 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 Balcombe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maidenbower (3.34 miles)	62
Tilgate Forest Row (3.34 miles)	15
Handcross (3.16 miles)	12
Brook Street (2.56 miles)	11
Turners Hill (3.62 miles)	8
Balcombe	4
Ardingly (1.96 miles)	4
Balcombe Lane (1.24 miles)	3
Highbrook (3.1 miles)	2
Ardingly Reservoir (1.1 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Balcombe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maidenbower	19
Tilgate Forest Row	9
Handcross	5
Turners Hill	4
Ardingly Reservoir	2
Brook Street	1
Balcombe	1
Ardingly	1
Balcombe Lane	1
Highbrook	0

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

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 Balcombe 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 Balcombe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Balcombe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Balcombe is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Broadfield	66
2	Tilgate	65
3	Furnace Green	46
4	Pound Hill South & Worth	36
5	Ardingly and Balcombe	29
6	Haywards Heath Bentswood	28
7	Haywards Heath Ashenground	27
8	Maidenbower	21
9	Haywards Heath Lucastes	12
10	Haywards Heath Heath	10
11	Lindfield	5

Which road in Balcombe has the highest level of crime?

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