Crime Statistics for Church Town, Carnkie, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Church Town in October 2024. There were a total of 196 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 Church Town, 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	80
Anti Social Behaviour	54
Public Order	20
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Other Theft	8
Burglary	8
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	2
Shoplifting	2
All Crime	196

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 Church Town. 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 Church Town

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Church Town	192
Tolgus Mount (0.88 miles)	185
Plain-an-Gwarry (0.62 miles)	143
Redruth (0.62 miles)	143
Pool (1.24 miles)	127
Illogan Highway (1.24 miles)	127
Carn Brea Village (0.62 miles)	106
Tolskithy (0.62 miles)	106
Busveal (1.24 miles)	105
Church Coombe (0.62 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Church Town?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tolgus Mount	89
Church Town	80
Plain-an-Gwarry	67
Redruth	67
Busveal	46
Pool	37
Illogan Highway	37
Carn Brea Village	37
Tolskithy	37
Church Coombe	2

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

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 Church Town 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 Church Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Church Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Church Town is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Camborne Trelowarren	72
2	Camborne Roskear	60
3	Camborne Treswithian	53
4	Camborne Treslothan	49
5	Redruth North	45
6	Redruth Central	37
7	Pool and Tehidy	37
8	Four Lanes	32
9	Redruth South	27
10	Illogan	26
11	Carharrack, Gwennap and St Day	10

Which road in Church Town has the highest level of crime?

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