Crime Statistics for Mite Houses, Copeland, Cumbria, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Mite Houses in September 2024. There was only 2 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Mite Houses, 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	2
All Crime	2

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 Mite Houses. 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 Mite Houses

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Calder Bridge (5.55 miles)	8
Yottenfews (5.85 miles)	5
Ponsonby (5.3 miles)	5
Ravenglass (0.62 miles)	2
Saltcoats (0.88 miles)	2
Mite Houses	2
Lane End (2.78 miles)	1
Gosforth (3.93 miles)	1
Broad Oak (2.63 miles)	0
Bootle (5.72 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Mite Houses?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ravenglass	2
Saltcoats	2
Mite Houses	2
Lane End	1
Gosforth	1
Calder Bridge	0
Yottenfews	0
Ponsonby	0
Broad Oak	0
Bootle	0

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

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 Mite Houses 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 Mite Houses compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Whitehaven South	48
2	Cleator Moor	42
3	Sneckyeat	33
4	Corkickle	24
5	Egremont	23
6	St Bees	21
7	Moor Row & Bigrigg	18
8	Millom	12
9	Beckermet	4
10	Black Combe & Scafell	2
11	Gosforth & Seascale	1

Which road in Mite Houses has the highest level of crime?

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