Crime Statistics for Morton, Carlisle, Carlisle, Cumbria, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Morton in August 2024. There were a total of 155 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Morton, 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	60
Drugs	17
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Public Order	11
Possession Of Weapons	8
Shoplifting	7
Other Crime	7
Other Theft	6
Burglary	5
Vehicle Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	155

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 Morton. 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 Morton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Carlisle (0.88 miles)	454
Currock (1.24 miles)	277
Stainton (1.39 miles)	260
Longsowerby (0.62 miles)	193
Upperby (1.39 miles)	159
Morton	107
Belle Vue (0.88 miles)	95
Blackwell (1.39 miles)	70
Cummersdale (0.62 miles)	33
Newby West (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Morton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stainton	224
Carlisle	162
Currock	130
Upperby	82
Longsowerby	80
Morton	60
Belle Vue	47
Blackwell	37
Cummersdale	18
Newby West	0

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

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 Morton 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 Morton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Cathedral & Castle	67
2	Currock & Upperby	65
3	Newtown & Morton North	60
4	Denton Holme & Morton South	56
5	Botcherby & Harraby North	52
6	Harraby South & Parklands	48
7	Sandsfield & Morton West	46
8	Dalston & Burgh	33
9	Stanwix & Houghton	12
10	Belah & Kingmoor	7
11	Wetheral & Corby	4

Which road in Morton has the highest level of crime?

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