Crime Statistics for Barbican, Plymouth, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barbican in September 2024. There were a total of 979 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 Barbican, 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	400
Anti Social Behaviour	99
Criminal Damage Arson	78
Other Theft	76
Public Order	74
Shoplifting	74
Drugs	54
Vehicle Crime	31
Burglary	28
Other Crime	21
Possession Of Weapons	17
Theft From The Person	16
Robbery	8
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	979

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 Barbican. 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 Barbican

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Plymouth (1.39 miles)	813
Stoke (1.39 miles)	778
Mannamead (1.24 miles)	704
Barbican	661
Stonehouse (1.24 miles)	494
Laira (1.39 miles)	274
Cattedown (0.88 miles)	261
Efford (1.75 miles)	218
Hooe (1.75 miles)	29
Turnchapel (1.39 miles)	25

Where are the most violent places near Barbican?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barbican	400
Plymouth	309
Stoke	295
Mannamead	240
Stonehouse	202
Cattedown	188
Efford	106
Laira	88
Hooe	14
Turnchapel	13

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

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 Barbican 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 Barbican compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barbican and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Barbican have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Plymstock Radford.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter and the Waterfront	84
2	Drake	77
3	Sutton and Mount Gould	75
4	Stoke	73
5	Devonport	69
6	Efford and Lipson	64
7	Ham	61
8	Torpoint East	44
9	Compton	42
10	Peverell	30
11	Plymstock Radford	24

Which road in Barbican has the highest level of crime?

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