Crime Statistics for Garker, Tregrehan Mills, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Garker in October 2024. There were a total of 35 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Garker, 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	20
Other Theft	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Public Order	1
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
Burglary	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	35

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 Garker. 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 Garker

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Boscoppa (0.88 miles)	158
Holmbush (1.39 miles)	141
Bethel (1.39 miles)	141
Carclaze (1.24 miles)	110
Carluddon (1.39 miles)	39
Bodelva (0.62 miles)	36
Garker	35
Biscovey (1.39 miles)	25
Knightor (1.39 miles)	22
Carlyon Bay (1.39 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near Garker?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Boscoppa	77
Holmbush	69
Bethel	69
Carclaze	55
Bodelva	23
Garker	20
Carluddon	18
Biscovey	12
Carlyon Bay	9
Knightor	6

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

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 Garker 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 Garker compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Austell Gover	56
2	Mount Charles	47
3	Bugle	41
4	St Blazey	40
5	St Austell Poltair	33
6	Par and St Blazey Gate	32
7	St Austell Bay	29
8	Penwithick and Boscoppa	23
9	Mevagissey	15
10	St Austell Bethel	13
11	St Mewan	7

Which road in Garker has the highest level of crime?

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