Crime Statistics for Porthtowan, Porthtowan Beach, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Porthtowan in October 2024. There were a total of 6 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Public Order.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour3
Public Order2
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime6

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 Porthtowan. 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 Porthtowan

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Porthtowan8
Towan Cross (0.88 miles)8
Banns (0.88 miles)8
Mingoose (1.39 miles)7
Cambrose (1.39 miles)6
Laity Moor (1.24 miles)5
Forge (1.24 miles)5
Mawla (1.39 miles)5
Manor Parsley (0.88 miles)4
Goonvrea (1.39 miles)0

0%
of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Porthtowan?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Mingoose4
Cambrose3
Laity Moor2
Forge2
Mawla2
Towan Cross1
Banns1
Porthtowan0
Manor Parsley0
Goonvrea0

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

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 Porthtowan 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 Porthtowan compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Porthtowan and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Porthtowan is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Redruth North45
2Redruth Central37
3Pool and Tehidy37
4Four Lanes32
5Perranporth30
6Redruth South27
7Illogan26
8Mount Hawke and Portreath15
9St Agnes12
10Carharrack, Gwennap and St Day10
11Chacewater, Kenwyn and Baldhu6

Which road in Porthtowan has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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