Crime Statistics for Bentwichen, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bentwichen in October 2024. There were no crime incidents in in this areas this month.

Crime CategoryIncidents
All Crime0

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 Bentwichen. 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 Bentwichen

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Molton (5.12 miles)26
North Molton (2.48 miles)2
Garliford (5.12 miles)2
High Bray (2.56 miles)0
Holewater (2.24 miles)0
Exmoor (4.05 miles)0
Bentwichen0
Heasley Mill (0.62 miles)0
Little Bray (3.34 miles)0
South Radworthy (0.88 miles)0

5.55%
of North Molton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bentwichen?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Molton12
North Molton2
Garliford0
High Bray0
Holewater0
Exmoor0
Bentwichen0
Heasley Mill0
Little Bray0
South Radworthy0

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

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 Bentwichen 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 Bentwichen compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Barnstaple with Westacott51
2Newport36
3Porlock & District36
4Lynton & Lynmouth32
5Exmoor31
6Landkey16
7Bratton Fleming13
8South Molton11
9Bishop's Nympton8
10Chittlehampton7
11North Molton2

Which road in Bentwichen has the highest level of crime?

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

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