Crime Rate in Burgess Hill St Andrews, ward

Burgess Hill St Andrews has the 6th highest crime rate of 27 wards in Mid Sussex district and the 2918th highest crime rate ward of 7,548 wards in England and Wales. Across the region (South East), it has the 392nd highest crime rate of 1,269 wards.

The overall crime rate in Burgess Hill St Andrews in the last 12 months was 77.0 per 1,000 residents and was 26.3% higher than the Mid Sussex district average (60.9 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, Burgess Hill St Andrews’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 160 offences recorded. The least common crime was Theft from the person with 2 cases , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 66.7% YoY). The sharpest decline was Shoplifting ( -62.1% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 212 (≈ 31.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 5.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 87.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the Burgess Hill St Andrews ward, the highest concentration of overall crime occurs near Supermarket, with 79 recorded incidents. Violent and public-order offences happen most frequently around Grange Close (16 offences). Both locations are situated within roughly 0.3 miles of each other.