Crime Statistics for New Mills, Ledbury, Herefordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Mills 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 Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in New Mills, 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 Crime25
Shoplifting7
Other Theft6
Anti Social Behaviour4
Public Order4
Drugs3
Possession Of Weapons2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Vehicle Crime2
Other Crime2
All Crime57

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 New Mills. 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 New Mills

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

LocationCrime Incidents
New Mills54
Ledbury (0.62 miles)37
Beggars Ash (0.62 miles)30
Leadon (3.16 miles)4
Waller’s Green (1.96 miles)3
Lower Southfield (2.56 miles)2
Pixley (2.48 miles)2
Birchall (3.1 miles)2
Coddington (2.56 miles)0
Rowland’s Green (1.76 miles)0

8.73%
of Ledbury West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Mills?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
New Mills25
Ledbury12
Beggars Ash7
Leadon6
Waller’s Green2
Lower Southfield2
Pixley2
Birchall2
Coddington0
Rowland’s Green0

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

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 New Mills 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 New Mills compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Mills and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Mills is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Priory35
2Dymock35
3Upton and Hanley35
4Ledbury North33
5West30
6Ledbury West28
7Hope End20
8Old Gore20
9Morton20
10Wells18

Which road in New Mills has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in New Mills 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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