Crime Statistics for Portreath, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Portreath in September 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Portreath, 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	3
Public Order	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	7

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Portreath. 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 Portreath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Broad Lane (2.24 miles)	132
Paynter’s Lane End (1.75 miles)	125
Park Bottom (1.96 miles)	117
Sparnon Gate (2.23 miles)	86
South Tehidy (1.86 miles)	68
Tolvaddon Downs (1.86 miles)	68
Bridge (1.39 miles)	56
Illogan (1.39 miles)	28
Cambrose (1.86 miles)	10
Portreath	7

Where are the most violent places near Portreath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Broad Lane	46
Paynter’s Lane End	44
Park Bottom	40
Bridge	40
Sparnon Gate	30
South Tehidy	25
Tolvaddon Downs	25
Illogan	10
Portreath	3
Cambrose	2

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

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 Portreath 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 Portreath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Portreath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Portreath have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Camborne Trelowarren.

#	Ward	Score
1	Camborne Trelowarren	72
2	Camborne Roskear	60
3	Camborne Treswithian	53
4	Redruth North	45
5	Redruth Central	37
6	Pool and Tehidy	37
7	Four Lanes	32
8	Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth	32
9	Redruth South	27
10	Illogan	26
11	Mount Hawke and Portreath	15

Which road in Portreath has the highest level of crime?

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