Crime Statistics for New Buildings, Camerton, Bath and North East Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Buildings in August 2024. There were a total of 60 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in New Buildings, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime20
Shoplifting12
Public Order10
Criminal Damage Arson6
Anti Social Behaviour4
Drugs4
Vehicle Crime2
Burglary2
All Crime60

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Tyning (1.24 miles)82
New Buildings53
Ashgrove (0.62 miles)41
Double Hill (1.24 miles)40
Carlingcott (0.62 miles)29
Peasedown St John (0.62 miles)28
Radford (1.24 miles)5
Camerton (0.62 miles)2
Meadgate (0.88 miles)1
Tunley (1.24 miles)1

8.96%
of Peasedown residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Buildings?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Tyning29
New Buildings20
Ashgrove16
Double Hill16
Carlingcott10
Peasedown St John9
Radford2
Camerton1
Tunley1
Meadgate0

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

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 New Buildings 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 New Buildings compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Buildings and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Buildings is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Radstock51
2Paulton44
3Midsomer Norton Redfield38
4Westfield35
5Coleford and Holcombe32
6Clutton & Farmborough30
7Midsomer Norton North25
8Chewton Mendip and Ston Easton24
9Peasedown22
10High Littleton17
11Timsbury11

Which road in New Buildings has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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