Crime Statistics for Bussex, Sedgemoor, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bussex in September 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Public Order1
Violent Crime1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Other Theft1
All Crime4

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 Bussex. 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 Bussex

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Dunwear (2.48 miles)112
Moorland (Northmoor Green) (2.24 miles)9
Northmoor Green (Moorland) (2.24 miles)9
Fowler’s Plot (1.39 miles)7
Andersea (1.76 miles)7
Bussex4
Greylake (2.24 miles)3
Chedzoy (1.39 miles)2
Parchey (1.39 miles)2
Moorlinch (2.56 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 Bussex?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Dunwear41
Moorland (Northmoor Green)5
Northmoor Green (Moorland)5
Chedzoy2
Fowler’s Plot1
Bussex1
Greylake1
Parchey1
Andersea0
Moorlinch0

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

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 Bussex 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 Bussex compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bridgwater Westover80
2Bridgwater Eastover72
3Bridgwater Hamp70
4Bridgwater Dunwear63
5Bridgwater Wyndham56
6Bridgwater Victoria50
7Bridgwater Fairfax49
8Puriton and Woolavington36
9King's Isle33
10Turn Hill30
11Cannington and Wembdon29

Which road in Bussex has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bussex 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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