Crime Statistics for Poolmill, Bridstow, Herefordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Poolmill in October 2024. There were a total of 12 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Theft	2
Violent Crime	2
Other Crime	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	12

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 Poolmill. 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 Poolmill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rudhall Brook (1.62 miles)	89
Greytree (0.88 miles)	84
Ashfield (0.88 miles)	36
Poolmill	12
Bridstow	12
Rudhall (2.56 miles)	10
Tudorville (1.39 miles)	7
Pencraig (2.78 miles)	3
Brelston Green (2.78 miles)	3
Hom Green (1.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Poolmill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rudhall Brook	27
Greytree	21
Ashfield	8
Rudhall	5
Tudorville	5
Poolmill	2
Bridstow	2
Pencraig	1
Brelston Green	1
Hom Green	0

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

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 Poolmill 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 Poolmill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dixton with Osbaston	96
2	Ross North	50
3	Ross West	41
4	Ross East	34
5	Old Gore	20
6	Kerne Bridge	18
7	Lydbrook	12
8	Penyard	12
9	Berry Hill	10
10	Llangarron	9
11	Mitcheldean, Ruardean & Drybrook	7

Which road in Poolmill has the highest level of crime?

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