Crime Statistics for Burgess Hill, West Sussex, 2024

There were a total of 183 street level crime incidents in Burgess Hill in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	50
Violent Crime	43
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Public Order	16
Other Theft	15
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Burglary	8
Bicycle Theft	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	183

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 Burgess Hill. 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 Burgess Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burgess Hill	183
Abbotsford (0.88 miles)	133
Bolnore (2.56 miles)	73
Keymer (2.49 miles)	40
Hassocks (2.56 miles)	38
Adur (1.84 miles)	21
Chownes Mead (2.48 miles)	18
Hickstead (3.16 miles)	7
Cuckfield (3.17 miles)	7
Ansty (2.78 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Burgess Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Burgess Hill	43
Abbotsford	42
Bolnore	24
Keymer	15
Hassocks	15
Chownes Mead	9
Adur	8
Hickstead	1
Cuckfield	0
Ansty	0

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

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 Burgess Hill 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 Burgess Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Burgess Hill Leylands	45
2	Burgess Hill Meeds	37
3	Haywards Heath Ashenground	27
4	Hassocks	25
5	Burgess Hill St Andrews	22
6	Cuckfield	22
7	Burgess Hill Victoria	21
8	Burgess Hill Dunstall	20
9	Wivelsfield	19
10	Haywards Heath Lucastes	12
11	Burgess Hill Franklands	9

Which road in Burgess Hill has the highest level of crime?

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