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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rowford in September 2024. There were a total of 144 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 Rowford, 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	71
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Public Order	15
Shoplifting	9
Other Theft	8
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Burglary	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Robbery	2
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	144

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 Rowford. 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 Rowford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rowbarton (1.39 miles)	470
Halcon (1.39 miles)	454
Cheddon Fitzpaine (0.62 miles)	272
Bathpool (1.39 miles)	244
Monkton Heathfield (1.39 miles)	156
Rowford	144
Goosenford (0.62 miles)	136
Sidbrook (1.24 miles)	67
Gotton (0.88 miles)	55
Upper Cheddon (0.62 miles)	53

Where are the most violent places near Rowford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halcon	248
Cheddon Fitzpaine	244
Rowbarton	146
Bathpool	123
Rowford	71
Monkton Heathfield	65
Goosenford	61
Upper Cheddon	35
Gotton	32
Sidbrook	26

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

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 Rowford 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 Rowford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rowford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rowford is ranked #2.

#	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	Norton Fitzwarren & Staplegrove	32
10	Wilton & Sherford	30
11	Manor & Tangier	26

Which road in Rowford has the highest level of crime?

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