Crime Statistics for Goosewell, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Goosewell in August 2024. There was only 5 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Goosewell, 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 Crime5
All Crime5

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ilfracombe (2.48 miles)122
Chambercombe (1.86 miles)113
Hele (1.24 miles)111
Combe Martin (1.96 miles)16
Goosewell5
Hagginton Hill5
Berrynarbor (0.88 miles)5
Henstridge (2.63 miles)3
Lower Slade (2.77 miles)3
Two Pots (2.24 miles)2

3.67%
of Combe Martin residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Goosewell?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ilfracombe52
Chambercombe44
Hele44
Combe Martin7
Goosewell5
Hagginton Hill5
Berrynarbor3
Henstridge2
Lower Slade2
Two Pots1

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

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 Goosewell 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 Goosewell compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ilfracombe East64
2Barnstaple with Pilton40
3Lynton & Lynmouth32
4Ilfracombe West29
5Combe Martin24
6Marwood23
7Bratton Fleming13
8Mortehoe12
9Braunton East7
10Braunton West & Georgeham7
11Heanton Punchardon3

Which road in Goosewell has the highest level of crime?

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

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