Crime Statistics for Broadshard, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broadshard in September 2024. There were a total of 42 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour11
Violent Crime10
Public Order6
Shoplifting5
Other Theft4
Criminal Damage Arson3
Robbery1
Burglary1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime42

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 Broadshard. 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 Broadshard

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Crewkerne (0.62 miles)43
Broadshard42
Misterton (1.39 miles)14
Haselbury Plucknett (1.86 miles)4
Lower Stratton (3.11 miles)2
Roundham (1.39 miles)0
Clapton (3.1 miles)0
Chiselborough (2.78 miles)0
Hewish (1.76 miles)0
South Perrott (3.1 miles)0

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Broadshard?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Crewkerne10
Broadshard10
Misterton4
Haselbury Plucknett1
Lower Stratton0
Roundham0
Clapton0
Chiselborough0
Hewish0
South Perrott0

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

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 Broadshard 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 Broadshard compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Broadshard and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Broadshard is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Coker53
2Hamdon35
3Crewkerne35
4Ilminster32
5South Petherton26
6Eggwood23
7Beaminster22
8Neroche22
9Windwhistle18
10Parrett16
11Yetminster5

Which road in Broadshard has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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