Crime Statistics for Frieze Hill, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Frieze Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 466 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Frieze Hill, 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 Crime194
Shoplifting88
Anti Social Behaviour62
Public Order40
Other Theft22
Criminal Damage Arson20
Burglary12
Vehicle Crime8
Robbery8
Bicycle Theft6
Other Crime4
Drugs2
All Crime466

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 Frieze Hill. 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 Frieze Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Rowbarton (0.62 miles)472
Frieze Hill457
Taunton (1.39 miles)383
Sherford (1.39 miles)110
Roughmoor (0.62 miles)68
Bishop’s Hull (0.88 miles)49
Comeytrowe (1.39 miles)25
Norton Fitzwarren (1.24 miles)21
Upcott (1.39 miles)19
Barr (1.39 miles)10

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Where are the most violent places near Frieze Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Taunton246
Frieze Hill194
Rowbarton171
Sherford43
Roughmoor36
Bishop’s Hull27
Upcott15
Norton Fitzwarren13
Comeytrowe11
Barr10

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

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 Frieze Hill 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 Frieze Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Frieze Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Frieze Hill is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Victoria81
2Priorswood74
3Halcon & Lane73
4North Town66
5Wellsprings & Rowbarton55
6Vivary51
7Norton Fitzwarren & Staplegrove32
8Wilton & Sherford30
9Trull, Pitminster & Corfe29
10Manor & Tangier26
11Comeytrowe & Bishop's Hull15

Which road in Frieze Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

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