Crime Statistics for Barton, Teignbridge, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barton in October 2024. There were a total of 16 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Barton, 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 Crime13
Other Crime3
All Crime16

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 Barton. 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 Barton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
St Marychurch (1.39 miles)408
Watcombe (0.62 miles)386
Combe Pafford (0.88 miles)385
Shiphay (1.39 miles)149
Coffinswell (0.88 miles)110
Daccombe (0.62 miles)74
Higher Rocombe Barton (0.88 miles)74
Maidencombe (1.39 miles)57
Edginswell (1.39 miles)33
Barton16

6.92%
of Barton with Watcombe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Barton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
St Marychurch173
Watcombe132
Combe Pafford128
Shiphay50
Higher Rocombe Barton29
Coffinswell28
Maidencombe24
Daccombe18
Edginswell16
Barton13

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

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 Barton 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 Barton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barton is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Tormohun84
2Ellacombe71
3St Marychurch63
4Wellswood55
5Barton with Watcombe55
6Cockington with Chelston53
7Kersell-with-Combe39
8Buckland & Milber35
9Shiphay34
10Preston26
11Shaldon & Stokeinteignhead20

Which road in Barton has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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