Crime Statistics for Wath Brow, Copeland, Cumbria, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wath Brow in August 2024. There were a total of 48 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Wath Brow, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime18
Criminal Damage Arson11
Public Order5
Burglary4
Anti Social Behaviour3
Other Theft2
Shoplifting2
Drugs1
Other Crime1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime48

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 Wath Brow. 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 Wath Brow

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Parkside (0.88 miles)64
Mirehouse (2.55 miles)59
Wath Brow48
Briscoe (1.86 miles)38
Parkside (0.88 miles)38
Keekle (1.75 miles)24
Frizington (1.96 miles)19
Moor Row (1.24 miles)10
Pallaflat (2.24 miles)3
Bigrigg (1.39 miles)3

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



Where are the most violent places near Wath Brow?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Mirehouse35
Briscoe21
Wath Brow18
Keekle14
Parkside13
Frizington10
Moor Row5
Bigrigg2
Pallaflat1

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

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 Wath Brow 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 Wath Brow compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wath Brow and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Wath Brow is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Whitehaven South48
2Cleator Moor42
3Whitehaven Central36
4Kells35
5Sneckyeat33
6Corkickle24
7Egremont23
8St Bees21
9Moor Row & Bigrigg18
10Hillcrest13
11Moresby6

Which road in Wath Brow has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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