Crime Statistics for Hartley, Plymouth, Devon, 2025

Is Hartley rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 275 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 Hartley, 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	117
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Criminal Damage Arson	31
Other Theft	25
Public Order	16
Vehicle Crime	15
Shoplifting	14
Burglary	9
Other Crime	6
Drugs	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	275

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 Hartley. 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 Hartley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mannamead (0.62 miles)	720
Plymouth (0.88 miles)	691
Ham (1.24 miles)	523
Honicknowle (1.39 miles)	420
Manadon (0.88 miles)	363
Hartley	275
Efford (1.39 miles)	266
Pennycross (0.62 miles)	262
Crownhill (0.62 miles)	254
Eggbuckland (1.24 miles)	141

Where are the most violent places near Hartley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Plymouth	302
Mannamead	274
Ham	255
Honicknowle	209
Manadon	182
Pennycross	119
Hartley	117
Crownhill	112
Efford	105
Eggbuckland	55

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

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 Hartley 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 Hartley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hartley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hartley is ranked #8.

#	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	Ham	61
8	Compton	42
9	Peverell	30
10	Eggbuckland	28
11	Moor View	24

Which road in Hartley has the highest level of crime?

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