Crime Statistics for Dunkeswell, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dunkeswell in September 2024. There were a total of 3 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 Dunkeswell, 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 Crime2
Other Crime1
All Crime3

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 Dunkeswell. 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 Dunkeswell

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Combe Raleigh (3.17 miles)13
Dunkeswell3
Sheldon (1.39 miles)1
Blackborough (3.34 miles)1
Saint Hill (3.16 miles)1
Bodmiscombe (2.77 miles)1
Abbey (1.86 miles)0
Shelvin (2.24 miles)0
Madford (2.49 miles)0
Beacon (2.24 miles)0

4.35%
of Upper Culm residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Dunkeswell?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Combe Raleigh8
Dunkeswell2
Sheldon0
Blackborough0
Saint Hill0
Bodmiscombe0
Abbey0
Shelvin0
Madford0
Beacon0

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

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 Dunkeswell 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 Dunkeswell compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Hatch & Blackdown32
2Cullompton North24
3Honiton St Paul's22
4Cullompton Outer17
5Canonsleigh15
6Cullompton South14
7Honiton St Michael's12
8Lower Culm10
9Upper Culm6
10Tale Vale4
11Feniton3

Which road in Dunkeswell has the highest level of crime?

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

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