Crime Statistics for Efford, Plymouth, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Efford in October 2024. There were a total of 264 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 Efford, 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	88
Anti Social Behaviour	51
Drugs	22
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Shoplifting	22
Vehicle Crime	17
Other Theft	14
Public Order	13
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	2
Burglary	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	264

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 Efford. 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 Efford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barbican (1.75 miles)	898
Mannamead (1.24 miles)	782
Laira (0.62 miles)	433
Efford	264
Hartley (1.39 miles)	252
Crownhill (1.75 miles)	202
Eggbuckland (0.62 miles)	143
Billacombe (1.75 miles)	142
Longbridge (0.88 miles)	112
Plympton (1.86 miles)	80

Where are the most violent places near Efford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barbican	320
Mannamead	260
Laira	163
Hartley	89
Efford	88
Crownhill	81
Eggbuckland	65
Billacombe	47
Longbridge	30
Plympton	28

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

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 Efford 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 Efford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Efford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Efford is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter and the Waterfront	84
2	Drake	77
3	Sutton and Mount Gould	75
4	Stoke	73
5	Budshead	64
6	Efford and Lipson	64
7	Compton	42
8	Peverell	30
9	Eggbuckland	28
10	Plymstock Radford	24
11	Moor View	24

Which road in Efford has the highest level of crime?

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