Crime Statistics for Little Knowle, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Knowle in October 2024. There were a total of 25 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 Little Knowle, 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 Crime10
Shoplifting5
Criminal Damage Arson3
Public Order2
Anti Social Behaviour2
Burglary2
Other Crime1
All Crime25

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 Little Knowle. 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 Little Knowle

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Exmouth (3.77 miles)207
Littleham (2.56 miles)110
Budleigh Salterton47
Kersbrook (0.62 miles)38
Little Knowle25
Newton Poppleford (4.52 miles)14
Northmostown (4.73 miles)12
Bridge End (4.73 miles)12
Colaton Raleigh (3.17 miles)8
North Star (2.24 miles)6

4.73%
of Exmouth Brixington residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Little Knowle?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Exmouth94
Littleham38
Budleigh Salterton16
Kersbrook12
Colaton Raleigh12
Little Knowle10
Newton Poppleford7
Northmostown5
Bridge End5
North Star2

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

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 Little Knowle 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 Little Knowle compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Knowle and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Knowle is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Exmouth Town60
2Exmouth Littleham35
3Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh18
4Ottery St Mary15
5Sidmouth Sidford14
6Sidmouth Town13
7Exmouth Brixington11
8Exmouth Halsdon10
9Budleigh & Raleigh5
10Woodbury & Lympstone3
11Newton Poppleford & Harpford3

Which road in Little Knowle has the highest level of crime?

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

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