Crime Statistics for Cheddar Reservoir, Sedgemoor, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cheddar Reservoir in August 2024. There was only 9 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cheddar Reservoir, 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 Crime9
All Crime9

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Cheddar Reservoir. 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 Cheddar Reservoir

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cheddar (0.75 miles)45
Hale Coombe (2.23 miles)10
Cocklake (2.47 miles)9
Crickham (2.47 miles)9
Axbridge (0.84 miles)9
Cheddar Reservoir5
Lower Weare (2.36 miles)4
Sparrow Hill (1.82 miles)3
Weare (1.82 miles)3
Nyland (1.95 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 Cheddar Reservoir?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cheddar17
Cheddar Reservoir9
Hale Coombe7
Axbridge4
Lower Weare2
Cocklake1
Crickham1
Sparrow Hill0
Weare0
Nyland0

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

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 Cheddar Reservoir 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 Cheddar Reservoir compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cheddar Reservoir and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cheddar Reservoir is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Congresbury & Puxton45
2Cheddar and Shipham38
3Banwell & Winscombe34
4Wrington33
5Knoll29
6West Polden24
7Wookey and St Cuthbert Out West24
8Axevale22
9Blagdon & Churchill16
10Wedmore and Mark12

Which road in Cheddar Reservoir has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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