Crime Statistics for Meal Bank, South Lakeland, Cumbria, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Meal Bank in October 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Meal Bank, 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	1
All Crime	1

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 Meal Bank. 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 Meal Bank

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lancaster Canal (1.68 miles)	232
Kentrigg (1.96 miles)	199
Kendal (2.63 miles)	129
Mintsfeet (1.96 miles)	114
Burneside (2.48 miles)	21
Plantation Bridge (3.77 miles)	1
Bowston (3.16 miles)	1
Meal Bank	1
Patton Bridge (1.39 miles)	0
Sprint (4 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Meal Bank?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lancaster Canal	101
Kentrigg	69
Kendal	45
Mintsfeet	42
Burneside	14
Meal Bank	1
Plantation Bridge	0
Bowston	0
Patton Bridge	0
Sprint	0

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

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 Meal Bank 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 Meal Bank compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Meal Bank and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Meal Bank is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kendal Town	38
2	Kendal North	29
3	Kendal East	17
4	Windermere	16
5	Bowness & Levens	14
6	Kendal Rural	13
7	Kendal West	11
8	Sedbergh & Kirkby Lonsdale	8
9	Orton with Tebay	4
10	Kendal South & Natland	3
11	Burton & Crooklands	2

Which road in Meal Bank has the highest level of crime?

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