Crime Statistics for Dolemeads, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dolemeads in October 2024. There were a total of 1074 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	288
Violent Crime	259
Anti Social Behaviour	122
Public Order	95
Other Theft	84
Criminal Damage Arson	60
Burglary	52
Vehicle Crime	34
Other Crime	22
Drugs	20
Bicycle Theft	16
Robbery	10
Theft From The Person	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	1074

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Dolemeads. 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 Dolemeads

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bathwick (0.62 miles)	982
Dolemeads	977
Larkhall (1.24 miles)	776
Fairfield Park (1.24 miles)	668
Bath (0.62 miles)	581
Beechen Cliff	555
Beacon Hill (1.24 miles)	498
Oldfield Park (1.24 miles)	307
South Twerton (1.24 miles)	271
Fox Hill (1.24 miles)	167

Where are the most violent places near Dolemeads?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bathwick	275
Dolemeads	259
Larkhall	250
Fairfield Park	227
Bath	154
Beechen Cliff	144
Beacon Hill	139
South Twerton	113
Fox Hill	100
Oldfield Park	97

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

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 Dolemeads 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 Dolemeads compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingsmead	66
2	Southdown	50
3	Walcot	47
4	Moorlands	45
5	Bathwick	45
6	Lansdown	45
7	Westmoreland	43
8	Lambridge	35
9	Oldfield Park	32
10	Widcombe & Lyncombe	29
11	Combe Down	25

Which road in Dolemeads has the highest level of crime?

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