Crime Statistics for High Cross, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, 2024

There were a total of 2 street level crime incidents in High Cross in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	2

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 High Cross. 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 High Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Henfield (1.96 miles)	33
Nep Town (2.24 miles)	18
Shermanbury (2.77 miles)	9
Hickstead (2.24 miles)	5
Albourne (1.39 miles)	5
Albourne Green (1.39 miles)	5
Kent Street (2.78 miles)	4
High Cross	2
Blackstone (0.62 miles)	1
Bedlam Street (2.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near High Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Henfield	13
Nep Town	7
Shermanbury	6
Kent Street	2
Hickstead	1
Bedlam Street	1
Albourne	0
Albourne Green	0
High Cross	0
Blackstone	0

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

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 High Cross 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 High Cross compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hangleton and Knoll	49
2	Burgess Hill Meeds	37
3	Hurstpierpoint and Downs	36
4	Hassocks	25
5	Cuckfield	22
6	Henfield	21
7	Burgess Hill Victoria	21
8	Steyning & Ashurst	21
9	Burgess Hill Dunstall	20
10	Bolney	17
11	Cowfold, Shermanbury & West Grinstead	12

Which road in High Cross has the highest level of crime?

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