Crime Statistics for Monkton Heathfield, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Monkton Heathfield in September 2024. There were a total of 156 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Monkton Heathfield, 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	65
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Shoplifting	16
Public Order	16
Other Theft	10
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	3
Robbery	2
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	156

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 Monkton Heathfield. 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 Monkton Heathfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halcon (0.88 miles)	454
Cheddon Fitzpaine (0.88 miles)	272
Bathpool	244
Monkton Heathfield	156
Rowford (1.39 miles)	144
Goosenford (0.88 miles)	136
Sidbrook (0.62 miles)	67
Langaller (0.62 miles)	67
Creech Heathfield (1.24 miles)	48
Creech St Michael (1.39 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Monkton Heathfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halcon	248
Cheddon Fitzpaine	244
Bathpool	123
Rowford	71
Monkton Heathfield	65
Goosenford	61
Creech Heathfield	60
Sidbrook	26
Langaller	21
Creech St Michael	6

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

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 Monkton Heathfield 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 Monkton Heathfield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Monkton Heathfield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Monkton Heathfield 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	Vivary	51
9	Creech St Michael	35
10	North Curry & Ruishton	28
11	Manor & Tangier	26

Which road in Monkton Heathfield has the highest level of crime?

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