Crime Statistics for Highertown, Newbridge, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highertown in August 2024. There were a total of 71 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 Highertown, 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	44
Shoplifting	7
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Other Theft	5
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	71

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 Highertown. 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 Highertown

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Truro (1.24 miles)	327
Kenwyn (1.39 miles)	187
New Mill (0.62 miles)	115
Highertown	62
Newbridge (0.62 miles)	35
Calenick (1.39 miles)	21
Tomperrow (1.86 miles)	12
Porth Kea (1.75 miles)	6
Kea (1.24 miles)	6
Shortlanesend (1.86 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Highertown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Truro	166
New Mill	71
Kenwyn	55
Newbridge	49
Highertown	44
Calenick	8
Tomperrow	2
Kea	2
Shortlanesend	2
Porth Kea	1

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

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 Highertown 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 Highertown compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Truro Tregolls	32
2	Perranporth	30
3	Truro Trehaverne	26
4	Truro Boscawen	26
5	Truro Redannick	24
6	St Agnes	12
7	Carharrack, Gwennap and St Day	10
8	Threemilestone and Gloweth	10
9	Chacewater, Kenwyn and Baldhu	6
10	Feock and Playing Place	3
11	Mabe, Perranarworthal and St Gluvias	1

Which road in Highertown has the highest level of crime?

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