Crime Statistics for Furnham, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Furnham in October 2024. There were a total of 203 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 Furnham, 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	86
Shoplifting	31
Public Order	21
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Vehicle Crime	9
Other Theft	8
Robbery	4
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	203

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 Furnham. 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 Furnham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chard (0.62 miles)	202
Furnham	191
Paintmoor (1.24 miles)	128
New England (0.62 miles)	117
Cuttiford’s Door (0.62 miles)	117
Langham (0.62 miles)	108
Hornsbury (0.88 miles)	96
Crimchard (0.62 miles)	62
Forton (1.39 miles)	28
Chardleigh Green (0.88 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near Furnham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Furnham	86
Chard	81
Paintmoor	55
Langham	49
New England	40
Cuttiford’s Door	40
Hornsbury	31
Crimchard	28
Forton	13
Chardleigh Green	7

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

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 Furnham 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 Furnham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chard Holyrood	73
2	Chard Avishayes	66
3	Chard Combe	61
4	Chard Crimchard	51
5	Chard Jocelyn	50
6	Ilminster	32
7	Blackdown & Tatworth	23
8	Neroche	22
9	Windwhistle	18
10	Yarty	13
11	Dunkeswell & Otterhead	5

Which road in Furnham has the highest level of crime?

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