Crime Statistics for Plymouth, , 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Plymouth in October 2024. There were a total of 780 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Plymouth, 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	278
Anti Social Behaviour	132
Criminal Damage Arson	78
Shoplifting	69
Public Order	48
Other Theft	46
Drugs	40
Vehicle Crime	24
Burglary	21
Other Crime	14
Possession Of Weapons	10
Theft From The Person	8
Robbery	6
Bicycle Theft	6
All Crime	780

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 Plymouth. 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 Plymouth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barbican (1.39 miles)	898
Mannamead (0.62 miles)	782
Plymouth	780
Stoke (0.88 miles)	756
Stonehouse (1.39 miles)	499
Manadon (1.24 miles)	466
Ham (0.88 miles)	335
Honicknowle (1.39 miles)	311
Pennycross (0.62 miles)	291
Hartley (0.88 miles)	252

Where are the most violent places near Plymouth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barbican	320
Stoke	296
Plymouth	278
Mannamead	260
Stonehouse	203
Manadon	175
Honicknowle	145
Ham	137
Pennycross	108
Hartley	89

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

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 Plymouth 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 Plymouth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Plymouth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Plymouth is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Peter and the Waterfront	84
2	Drake	77
3	Sutton and Mount Gould	75
4	Stoke	73
5	Devonport	69
6	Efford and Lipson	64
7	Ham	61
8	Torpoint East	44
9	Compton	42
10	Peverell	30
11	Eggbuckland	28

Which road in Plymouth has the highest level of crime?

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