Crime Statistics for Faulkland, Mendip, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Faulkland in October 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Faulkland, 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	1
All Crime	1

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tyning (2.56 miles)	86
Green Parlour (1.86 miles)	49
Double Hill (2.24 miles)	49
Shoscombe (1.76 miles)	27
Shoscombe Vale (1.76 miles)	27
Foxcote (1.39 miles)	16
Stony Littleton (1.24 miles)	3
Norton St Philip (2.56 miles)	2
Faulkland	1
Hemington (0.88 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Faulkland?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tyning	36
Double Hill	27
Shoscombe	21
Shoscombe Vale	21
Green Parlour	19
Foxcote	8
Faulkland	1
Hemington	1
Stony Littleton	0
Norton St Philip	0

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

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 Faulkland 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 Faulkland compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Faulkland and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Faulkland have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is .

#	Ward	Score
1	Radstock	51
2	Beckington and Selwood	43
3	Midsomer Norton Redfield	38
4	Westfield	35
5	Ammerdown	33
6	Frome College	32
7	Coleford and Holcombe	32
8	Rode and Norton St Philip	32
9	Midsomer Norton North	25
10	Peasedown	22

Which road in Faulkland has the highest level of crime?

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