Crime Statistics for Laira, Plymouth, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Laira in September 2024. There were a total of 274 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 Laira, 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	38
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Shoplifting	29
Public Order	21
Other Theft	16
Vehicle Crime	15
Drugs	14
Other Crime	7
Burglary	6
Theft From The Person	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	274

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 Laira. 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 Laira

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mannamead (1.39 miles)	704
Barbican (1.39 miles)	661
Laira	274
Eggbuckland (1.24 miles)	267
Cattedown (1.39 miles)	261
Efford (0.62 miles)	218
Pomphlett (1.39 miles)	184
Longbridge (1.39 miles)	123
Billacombe (1.39 miles)	121
Plymstock (1.39 miles)	85

Where are the most violent places near Laira?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barbican	400
Mannamead	240
Cattedown	188
Pomphlett	152
Eggbuckland	131
Efford	106
Laira	88
Plymstock	50
Billacombe	49
Longbridge	48

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

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 Laira 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 Laira compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter and the Waterfront	84
2	Drake	77
3	Sutton and Mount Gould	75
4	Stoke	73
5	Devonport	69
6	Efford and Lipson	64
7	Compton	42
8	Peverell	30
9	Eggbuckland	28
10	Plymstock Radford	24
11	Plympton Erle	15

Which road in Laira has the highest level of crime?

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