Crime Statistics for Berkley Down, Mendip, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Berkley Down in September 2024. There were a total of 129 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 Berkley Down, 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 Crime47
Anti Social Behaviour25
Shoplifting21
Public Order11
Other Theft9
Criminal Damage Arson7
Vehicle Crime4
Burglary3
Theft From The Person1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime129

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 Berkley Down. 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 Berkley Down

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Fromefield (0.62 miles)201
Innox Hill (1.39 miles)148
Keyford (1.39 miles)134
Berkley Down129
Critchill (1.96 miles)69
Spring Gardens (1.96 miles)69
Little Keyford (1.76 miles)65
Oldford (1.39 miles)33
Berkley Marsh (0.88 miles)25
Berkley (1.39 miles)10

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Where are the most violent places near Berkley Down?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Keyford79
Fromefield63
Innox Hill48
Berkley Down47
Little Keyford31
Critchill26
Spring Gardens24
Oldford9
Berkley Marsh8
Berkley2

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

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 Berkley Down 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 Berkley Down compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Frome Oakfield69
2Frome Market69
3Frome Keyford62
4Frome Park57
5Beckington and Selwood43
6Ammerdown33
7Ethandune32
8Frome College32
9Rode and Norton St Philip32
10Frome Berkley Down29

Which road in Berkley Down has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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