Crime Statistics for Boscean, Boswedden, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Boscean in September 2024. There were a total of 19 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Boscean, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	8
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Theft	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	19

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cape Cornwall (0.4 miles)	19
Boscean	19
Botallack	19
Carnyorth (0.88 miles)	14
New Downs (0.62 miles)	11
St Just in Penwith (0.62 miles)	10
Higher Boscaswell (1.75 miles)	10
Pendeen (1.75 miles)	7
Lower Boscaswell (1.39 miles)	4
Kelynack (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Boscean?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cape Cornwall	8
Boscean	8
Botallack	8
Higher Boscaswell	8
Carnyorth	6
New Downs	3
St Just in Penwith	3
Pendeen	3
Lower Boscaswell	1
Kelynack	1

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

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 Boscean 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 Boscean compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Penzance Central	62
2	Penzance East	60
3	Penzance Promenade	38
4	Gulval and Heamoor	38
5	St Ives East	37
6	St Ives West	25
7	Marazion and Perranuthnoe	20
8	Ludgvan	17
9	Newlyn and Mousehole	16
10	St Buryan	15
11	St Just In Penwith	14

Which road in Boscean has the highest level of crime?

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