Crime Statistics for Lower Canada, Upper Canada, North Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Canada in September 2024. There were a total of 19 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lower Canada, 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	7
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Other Theft	2
Public Order	2
Burglary	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	19

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lower Canada. 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 Lower Canada

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Uphill Manor (1.96 miles)	452
Uphill (2.48 miles)	43
Knightcott (1.96 miles)	20
Lower Canada	19
Locking (0.88 miles)	16
Banwell (2.56 miles)	7
South Hill (1.39 miles)	7
Bleadon (1.39 miles)	7
Shiplate (1.24 miles)	5
Upper Canada (0.62 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Lower Canada?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Uphill Manor	172
Uphill	32
Knightcott	22
Locking	8
Lower Canada	7
Banwell	3
South Hill	1
Bleadon	1
Shiplate	1
Upper Canada	1

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

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 Lower Canada 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 Lower Canada compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Weston-super-Mare South	90
2	Weston-super-Mare Central	86
3	Weston-super-Mare Hillside	74
4	Weston-super-Mare Uphill	68
5	Weston-super-Mare Milton	60
6	Weston-super-Mare Winterstoke	55
7	Weston-super-Mare South Worle	50
8	Weston-super-Mare Kewstoke	47
9	Hutton & Locking	36
10	Knoll	29
11	Axevale	22

Which road in Lower Canada has the highest level of crime?

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