Crime Statistics for Crewkerne, Somerset, 2025

Is Crewkerne rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 44 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 Crewkerne, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	16
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Public Order	8
Other Theft	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Robbery	1
Shoplifting	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	44

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Broadshard (0.62 miles)	72
Crewkerne	44
Misterton (0.88 miles)	24
Mosterton (2.56 miles)	10
Littlewindsor (3.11 miles)	5
Haselbury Plucknett (1.96 miles)	2
Hewish (1.39 miles)	1
Roundham (1.24 miles)	0
Clapton (2.63 miles)	0
South Perrott (2.63 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Crewkerne?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Broadshard	26
Misterton	24
Crewkerne	16
Mosterton	14
Littlewindsor	3
Haselbury Plucknett	0
Hewish	0
Roundham	0
Clapton	0
South Perrott	0

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

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 Crewkerne 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 Crewkerne compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Coker	53
2	Hamdon	35
3	Crewkerne	35
4	Ilminster	32
5	South Petherton	26
6	Eggwood	23
7	Beaminster	22
8	Windwhistle	18
9	Parrett	16
10	Marshwood Vale	15
11	Yetminster	5

Which road in Crewkerne has the highest level of crime?

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