Crime Statistics for Brea, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brea in October 2024. There were a total of 380 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 Brea, 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	132
Anti Social Behaviour	106
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Public Order	23
Shoplifting	17
Other Crime	14
Burglary	12
Drugs	10
Vehicle Crime	9
Other Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
Robbery	5
Theft From The Person	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	380

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 Brea. 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 Brea

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brea	358
Camborne (1.24 miles)	270
Beacon (0.88 miles)	186
Bosleake (0.62 miles)	135
Pool (0.88 miles)	127
Illogan Highway (0.88 miles)	127
Higher Condurrow (0.62 miles)	103
Pengegon (0.62 miles)	103
Penhallick (0.62 miles)	87
Carn Arthen (0.88 miles)	31

Where are the most violent places near Brea?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brea	132
Camborne	101
Beacon	63
Bosleake	45
Higher Condurrow	41
Pengegon	41
Pool	37
Illogan Highway	37
Penhallick	25
Carn Arthen	12

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

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 Brea 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 Brea compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brea and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Brea is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Camborne Trelowarren	72
2	Camborne Roskear	60
3	Camborne Pendarves	55
4	Camborne Treswithian	53
5	Camborne Treslothan	49
6	Redruth North	45
7	Pool and Tehidy	37
8	Four Lanes	32
9	Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth	32
10	Redruth South	27
11	Illogan	26

Which road in Brea has the highest level of crime?

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