Crime Statistics for Blackstone, Horsham, West Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blackstone in August 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Burglary.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson1
Burglary1
Vehicle Crime1
Violent Crime1
All Crime4

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Henfield (1.86 miles)14
Nep Town (1.96 miles)12
Hickstead (2.78 miles)6
Shermanbury (3.1 miles)5
High Cross (0.62 miles)4
Blackstone4
Albourne (1.24 miles)3
Albourne Green (1.24 miles)3
Fulking (3.11 miles)1
Bedlam Street (1.96 miles)0

6.95%
of Bramber, Upper Beeding & Woodmancote residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Blackstone?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Henfield7
Nep Town6
Shermanbury1
High Cross1
Blackstone1
Albourne1
Albourne Green1
Hickstead0
Fulking0
Bedlam Street0

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

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 Blackstone 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 Blackstone compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Hangleton and Knoll49
2Burgess Hill Meeds37
3Hurstpierpoint and Downs36
4Hassocks25
5Henfield21
6Burgess Hill Victoria21
7Steyning & Ashurst21
8Burgess Hill Dunstall20
9Bolney17
10Bramber, Upper Beeding & Woodmancote13
11Cowfold, Shermanbury & West Grinstead12

Which road in Blackstone has the highest level of crime?

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

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