Crime Statistics for Maidencombe, Watcombe, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Maidencombe in October 2024. There were a total of 57 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 Maidencombe, 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	24
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Other Theft	3
Other Crime	2
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	57

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 Maidencombe. 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 Maidencombe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Marychurch (1.24 miles)	408
Watcombe (0.88 miles)	386
Combe Pafford (1.39 miles)	385
Daccombe (1.24 miles)	74
Higher Rocombe Barton (0.62 miles)	74
Maidencombe	57
Barton (1.39 miles)	16
Lower Gabwell (0.88 miles)	10
Higher Gabwell (0.62 miles)	8
Stokeinteignhead (1.39 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Maidencombe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Marychurch	173
Watcombe	132
Combe Pafford	128
Higher Rocombe Barton	29
Maidencombe	24
Daccombe	18
Barton	13
Lower Gabwell	4
Higher Gabwell	2
Stokeinteignhead	0

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

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 Maidencombe 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 Maidencombe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Maidencombe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Maidencombe have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Tormohun.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tormohun	84
2	Ellacombe	71
3	St Marychurch	63
4	Wellswood	55
5	Barton with Watcombe	55
6	Cockington with Chelston	53
7	Teignmouth West	42
8	Kersell-with-Combe	39
9	Teignmouth Central	37
10	Shiphay	34
11	Shaldon & Stokeinteignhead	20

Which road in Maidencombe has the highest level of crime?

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