Crime Statistics for Cricket Malherbie, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cricket Malherbie in August 2024. There were a total of 6 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Possession Of Weapons, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Possession Of Weapons4
Violent Crime2
All Crime6

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 Cricket Malherbie. 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 Cricket Malherbie

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Hornsbury (1.96 miles)91
Paintmoor (1.75 miles)70
Chard Reservoir (1.33 miles)56
Ilminster (1.86 miles)35
Knott Oak (1.96 miles)14
Dowlish Ford (1.39 miles)8
Moolham (1.24 miles)8
Cricket Malherbie4
Knowle St Giles (1.24 miles)3
Peasmarsh (1.39 miles)2

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



Where are the most violent places near Cricket Malherbie?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Hornsbury43
Paintmoor34
Chard Reservoir30
Ilminster18
Knott Oak5
Dowlish Ford3
Moolham3
Peasmarsh3
Cricket Malherbie2
Knowle St Giles2

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

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 Cricket Malherbie 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 Cricket Malherbie compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cricket Malherbie and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cricket Malherbie is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Chard Holyrood73
2Chard Avishayes66
3Chard Combe61
4Chard Crimchard51
5Chard Jocelyn50
6Crewkerne35
7Ilminster32
8South Petherton26
9Eggwood23
10Neroche22
11Windwhistle18

Which road in Cricket Malherbie has the highest level of crime?

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