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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Porlock in September 2024. There were a total of 5 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Crime3
Violent Crime2
All Crime5

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 Porlock. 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 Porlock

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Higher Town (4.96 miles)59
Minehead (4.96 miles)59
Allerford (1.39 miles)6
Bossington (0.88 miles)6
Porlock5
Doverhay5
Cutcombe (5.01 miles)3
Holnicote (1.86 miles)2
Exford (5.31 miles)1
Timberscombe (5 miles)0

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Porlock?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Higher Town20
Minehead20
Allerford3
Bossington3
Porlock2
Doverhay2
Holnicote2
Cutcombe0
Exford0
Timberscombe0

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

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 Porlock 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 Porlock compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Porlock and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Porlock is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Watchet & Williton38
2Porlock & District36
3Minehead Central34
4Minehead North34
5Exmoor31
6Old Cleeve & District26
7Periton & Woodcombe23
8Dulverton & District21
9Quantock Vale12
10North Molton2

Which road in Porlock has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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