Crime Statistics for Sparnon Gate, West Tolgus, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sparnon Gate in October 2024. There were a total of 83 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 Sparnon Gate, 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	42
Shoplifting	12
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Public Order	4
Other Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	83

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 Sparnon Gate. 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 Sparnon Gate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tolgus Mount (0.62 miles)	185
Plain-an-Gwarry (0.88 miles)	143
Redruth (0.88 miles)	143
Broad Lane (0.88 miles)	132
Gilbert’s Coombe (0.62 miles)	124
Paynter’s Lane End (0.62 miles)	113
Sparnon Gate	83
Parc Erissey (0.88 miles)	38
Bridge (0.88 miles)	15
Illogan (0.88 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near Sparnon Gate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tolgus Mount	89
Plain-an-Gwarry	67
Redruth	67
Gilbert’s Coombe	55
Broad Lane	51
Sparnon Gate	42
Paynter’s Lane End	40
Parc Erissey	18
Bridge	10
Illogan	10

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

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 Sparnon Gate 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 Sparnon Gate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sparnon Gate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sparnon Gate is ranked #4.

#	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	Redruth South	27
9	Illogan	26
10	Mount Hawke and Portreath	15
11	Chacewater, Kenwyn and Baldhu	6

Which road in Sparnon Gate has the highest level of crime?

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