Crime Statistics for Edentown, Carlisle, Cumbria, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Edentown in August 2024. There were a total of 238 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 Edentown, 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	72
Shoplifting	55
Anti Social Behaviour	35
Public Order	20
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Theft	12
Drugs	9
Other Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	5
Vehicle Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	238

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 Edentown. 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 Edentown

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Botcherby (1.75 miles)	587
Carlisle (1.24 miles)	577
Knowefield (0.62 miles)	284
Stainton (1.39 miles)	260
Edentown	238
Belah	211
Etterby (0.62 miles)	117
Belle Vue (1.75 miles)	95
Tarraby (0.88 miles)	75
Brunstock (1.75 miles)	44

Where are the most violent places near Edentown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Botcherby	289
Carlisle	287
Stainton	224
Knowefield	83
Belah	73
Edentown	72
Etterby	49
Belle Vue	47
Tarraby	21
Brunstock	8

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

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 Edentown 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 Edentown compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Cathedral & Castle	67
2	Currock & Upperby	65
3	Newtown & Morton North	60
4	Denton Holme & Morton South	56
5	Botcherby & Harraby North	52
6	Harraby South & Parklands	48
7	Sandsfield & Morton West	46
8	Dalston & Burgh	33
9	Longtown & the Border	18
10	Stanwix & Houghton	12
11	Belah & Kingmoor	7

Which road in Edentown has the highest level of crime?

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