Crime Statistics for Sheepway, Portbury, North Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sheepway in September 2024. There were a total of 22 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sheepway, 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 Crime9
Vehicle Crime4
Anti Social Behaviour4
Other Crime2
Burglary2
Other Theft1
All Crime22

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 Sheepway. 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 Sheepway

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Avonmouth (1.96 miles)158
Lodway (1.86 miles)156
Portishead (1.86 miles)114
North Weston (1.96 miles)54
Pill (1.96 miles)45
Ham Green (2.56 miles)33
Sheepway18
Clapton in Gordano (1.76 miles)4
Portbury (0.62 miles)1
Lower Failand (2.24 miles)0

10.06%
of Portishead East residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sheepway?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Lodway92
Avonmouth67
Portishead36
North Weston23
Pill20
Ham Green13
Sheepway9
Clapton in Gordano1
Portbury0
Lower Failand0

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

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 Sheepway 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 Sheepway compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sheepway and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sheepway is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston80
2Pill56
3Portishead North37
4Portishead South34
5Portishead East29
6Nailsea West End24
7Nailsea Youngwood24
8Nailsea Yeo23
9Portishead West19
10Nailsea Golden Valley19
11Gordano Valley18

Which road in Sheepway has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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