Crime Statistics for Polsloe, Exeter, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Polsloe in October 2024. There were a total of 883 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 Polsloe, 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	349
Shoplifting	116
Anti Social Behaviour	111
Criminal Damage Arson	63
Public Order	62
Other Theft	54
Drugs	24
Possession Of Weapons	23
Vehicle Crime	17
Theft From The Person	16
Bicycle Theft	16
Burglary	16
Other Crime	12
Robbery	4
All Crime	883

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 Polsloe. 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 Polsloe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Exeter (0.88 miles)	811
Pennsylvania (0.88 miles)	525
Polsloe	461
Stoke Hill (0.62 miles)	384
Duryard (1.39 miles)	345
Heavitree (0.88 miles)	237
Redhills (1.96 miles)	235
Exwick (1.86 miles)	222
Pinhoe (1.96 miles)	220
Monkerton (1.86 miles)	159

Where are the most violent places near Polsloe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Polsloe	349
Exeter	251
Pennsylvania	192
Stoke Hill	138
Duryard	123
Heavitree	98
Pinhoe	75
Monkerton	64
Exwick	58
Redhills	48

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

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 Polsloe 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 Polsloe compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St David's	54
2	Mincinglake and Whipton	49
3	Duryard and St James	44
4	St Thomas	44
5	Exwick	44
6	Newtown and St Leonard's	42
7	Pennsylvania	33
8	Priory	33
9	Alphington	30
10	Heavitree	29
11	St Loyes	19

Which road in Polsloe has the highest level of crime?

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