Crime Statistics for Exeter, Devon, 2025

Is Exeter rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 666 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Exeter, 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	229
Shoplifting	163
Anti Social Behaviour	91
Other Theft	40
Public Order	38
Criminal Damage Arson	35
Drugs	22
Burglary	15
Robbery	9
Vehicle Crime	9
Theft From The Person	5
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	666

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Exeter. 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 Exeter

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Exeter	666
Polsloe (0.88 miles)	558
Pennsylvania (1.24 miles)	443
Stoke Hill (1.39 miles)	344
Duryard (1.39 miles)	326
Exwick (1.39 miles)	289
Heavitree (1.24 miles)	202
Redhills (1.24 miles)	170
Alphington (1.96 miles)	16
Ide (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Exeter?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Exeter	229
Polsloe	186
Duryard	144
Stoke Hill	141
Pennsylvania	138
Heavitree	103
Exwick	97
Redhills	33
Alphington	8
Ide	0

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

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 Exeter 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 Exeter compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Exeter and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Exeter is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	St David's	54
2	Duryard and St James	44
3	St Thomas	44
4	Exwick	44
5	Newtown and St Leonard's	42
6	Pennsylvania	33
7	Priory	33
8	Alphington	30
9	Topsham	29
10	Heavitree	29
11	Kenn Valley	21

Which road in Exeter has the highest level of crime?

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