Crime Statistics for St Mewan, Polgooth, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Mewan in September 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Public Order1
Violent Crime1
All Crime2

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 St Mewan. 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 St Mewan

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Holmbush (2.55 miles)196
Bethel (2.55 miles)98
Higher Porthpean (1.96 miles)3
Greensplat (2.48 miles)2
St Mewan2
London Apprentice (0.88 miles)2
Polgooth (0.62 miles)2
Hornick (1.75 miles)1
Lanjeth (1.39 miles)1
Paramoor (1.75 miles)0

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



Where are the most violent places near St Mewan?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Holmbush164
Bethel41
Higher Porthpean3
London Apprentice2
Greensplat1
St Mewan1
Polgooth1
Hornick0
Lanjeth0
Paramoor0

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

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 St Mewan 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 St Mewan compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1St Austell Gover56
2Mount Charles47
3St Austell Poltair33
4St Austell Bay29
5Penwithick and Boscoppa23
6St Dennis and Nanpean15
7Mevagissey15
8St Austell Bethel13
9St Stephen-In-Brannel13
10Probus, Tregony and Grampound10
11St Mewan7

Which road in St Mewan has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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