Crime Statistics for Gotton, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gotton in September 2024. There were a total of 58 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gotton, 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	32
Other Theft	6
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Public Order	3
Other Crime	3
Burglary	2
All Crime	58

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 Gotton. 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 Gotton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cheddon Fitzpaine (0.62 miles)	272
Bathpool (1.39 miles)	244
Monkton Heathfield (1.39 miles)	156
Rowford (0.88 miles)	144
Goosenford (0.62 miles)	136
Sidbrook (0.88 miles)	67
Langaller (1.75 miles)	67
Gotton	55
Upper Cheddon (0.62 miles)	53
Burlinch (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Gotton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cheddon Fitzpaine	244
Bathpool	123
Rowford	71
Monkton Heathfield	65
Goosenford	61
Upper Cheddon	35
Gotton	32
Sidbrook	26
Langaller	21
Burlinch	0

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

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 Gotton 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 Gotton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gotton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Gotton is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Victoria	81
2	Priorswood	74
3	Halcon & Lane	73
4	North Town	66
5	West Monkton & Cheddon Fitzpaine	56
6	Blackbrook & Holway	55
7	Wellsprings & Rowbarton	55
8	North Petherton	46
9	Creech St Michael	35
10	Norton Fitzwarren & Staplegrove	32
11	Manor & Tangier	26

Which road in Gotton has the highest level of crime?

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