Crime Statistics for Ponsonby, New Mill, Cumbria, 2025

Is Ponsonby rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 34 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Violent Crime	11
Public Order	4
Other Theft	4
All Crime	34

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ponsonby. 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 Ponsonby

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Briscoe (4.16 miles)	23
Ponsonby	18
Carleton (3.51 miles)	7
Calder Bridge (0.62 miles)	6
Yottenfews (1.24 miles)	6
Haile (2.24 miles)	2
Blackbeck (1.96 miles)	1
Gosforth (1.39 miles)	1
Mite Houses (5.3 miles)	0
Beckermet (2.55 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Ponsonby?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Briscoe	16
Ponsonby	11
Carleton	3
Haile	2
Yottenfews	1
Blackbeck	1
Calder Bridge	0
Gosforth	0
Mite Houses	0
Beckermet	0

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

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 Ponsonby 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 Ponsonby compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ponsonby and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ponsonby is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Whitehaven South	48
2	Cleator Moor	42
3	Whitehaven Central	36
4	Sneckyeat	33
5	Corkickle	24
6	Egremont	23
7	St Bees	21
8	Moor Row & Bigrigg	18
9	Beckermet	4
10	Black Combe & Scafell	2
11	Gosforth & Seascale	1

Which road in Ponsonby has the highest level of crime?

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