Crime Statistics for Burlinch, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Burlinch in October 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	3

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 Burlinch. 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 Burlinch

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cheddon Fitzpaine (1.75 miles)	129
Goosenford (1.75 miles)	129
Upper Cheddon (1.96 miles)	69
Langaller (1.86 miles)	68
Sidbrook (1.39 miles)	64
Gotton (1.39 miles)	44
Adsborough (0.62 miles)	4
Higher Durston (1.39 miles)	3
Burlinch	3
Clavelshay (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Burlinch?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cheddon Fitzpaine	62
Goosenford	62
Upper Cheddon	37
Sidbrook	28
Langaller	26
Gotton	23
Adsborough	2
Higher Durston	1
Burlinch	1
Clavelshay	0

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

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 Burlinch 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 Burlinch compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Victoria	81
2	Priorswood	74
3	Halcon & Lane	73
4	North Town	66
5	West Monkton & Cheddon Fitzpaine	56
6	Blackbrook & Holway	55
7	Wellsprings & Rowbarton	55
8	Vivary	51
9	North Petherton	46
10	Creech St Michael	35
11	North Curry & Ruishton	28

Which road in Burlinch has the highest level of crime?

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