Crime Statistics for Harras, Copeland, Cumbria, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harras in September 2024. There were a total of 138 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Harras, 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	64
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Public Order	14
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Shoplifting	8
Other Theft	7
Burglary	4
Drugs	4
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	138

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 Harras. 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 Harras

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bleach Green (0.62 miles)	220
Harras	138
Hensingham (1.24 miles)	90
Mirehouse (1.86 miles)	77
Keekle (1.75 miles)	42
Moresby Parks (0.88 miles)	41
Tivoli (1.39 miles)	36
Kells (1.75 miles)	32
Parton (1.39 miles)	27
Lowca (1.86 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Harras?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bleach Green	114
Harras	64
Mirehouse	49
Hensingham	44
Tivoli	40
Moresby Parks	28
Parton	18
Keekle	15
Kells	15
Lowca	8

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

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 Harras 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 Harras compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harras and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harras is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Whitehaven South	48
2	Cleator Moor	42
3	Arlecdon & Ennerdale	40
4	Whitehaven Central	36
5	Kells	35
6	Sneckyeat	33
7	Corkickle	24
8	Moor Row & Bigrigg	18
9	Distington, Lowca & Parton	14
10	Hillcrest	13
11	Moresby	6

Which road in Harras has the highest level of crime?

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