Crime Statistics for Ash Priors, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ash Priors in October 2024. There were a total of 13 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 Ash Priors, 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
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Public Order	2
Burglary	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	13

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 Ash Priors. 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 Ash Priors

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greenway (0.88 miles)	24
Bishops Lydeard (0.62 miles)	22
Ash Priors	13
Combe Florey (1.24 miles)	5
Nethercott (1.96 miles)	4
Shopnoller (1.96 miles)	3
Halse (1.39 miles)	2
Northway (1.24 miles)	2
Chapel Leigh (1.86 miles)	0
Pond Close (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Ash Priors?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bishops Lydeard	14
Greenway	11
Ash Priors	7
Nethercott	3
Combe Florey	2
Halse	2
Northway	2
Shopnoller	0
Chapel Leigh	0
Pond Close	0

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

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 Ash Priors 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 Ash Priors compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ash Priors and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ash Priors is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	North Town	66
2	Wellsprings & Rowbarton	55
3	Wellington East	53
4	Wellington North	47
5	Norton Fitzwarren & Staplegrove	32
6	Wellington South	27
7	Manor & Tangier	26
8	Cotford St Luke & Oake	24
9	South Quantock	22
10	Milverton & District	18
11	Comeytrowe & Bishop's Hull	15

Which road in Ash Priors has the highest level of crime?

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