Crime Statistics for Downhead, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Downhead 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 Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	2
Violent Crime	2
All Crime	4

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 Downhead. 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 Downhead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Up Mudford (4.39 miles)	72
Sparkford (2.56 miles)	12
Ilchester (3.1 miles)	11
South Barrow (2.77 miles)	10
Ilchester Mead (3.62 miles)	8
Podimore (1.39 miles)	6
Downhead	6
Stockwitch Cross (0.88 miles)	3
Marston Magna (2.63 miles)	2
Parkway (3.1 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Downhead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Up Mudford	32
Sparkford	12
South Barrow	7
Ilchester	3
Podimore	3
Ilchester Mead	2
Downhead	2
Marston Magna	2
Stockwitch Cross	0
Parkway	0

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

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 Downhead 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 Downhead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Downhead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Downhead is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Yeovil Lyde	79
2	Yeovil College	71
3	Yeovil Summerlands	52
4	Yeovil Westland	45
5	Yeovil Without	40
6	Martock	32
7	Camelot	25
8	Northstone, Ivelchester & St Michael's	23
9	Butleigh and Baltonsborough	15
10	Cary	13
11	Sherborne Rural	6

Which road in Downhead has the highest level of crime?

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