Crime Statistics for Halcon, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Halcon in August 2024. There were a total of 1175 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 Halcon, 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	348
Shoplifting	247
Anti Social Behaviour	200
Public Order	144
Criminal Damage Arson	62
Other Theft	50
Robbery	36
Other Crime	20
Burglary	18
Bicycle Theft	18
Vehicle Crime	18
Drugs	10
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1175

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 Halcon. 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 Halcon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halcon	1117
Rowbarton (1.24 miles)	564
Taunton (0.88 miles)	492
Goosenford (1.24 miles)	315
Bathpool (0.88 miles)	244
Cheddon Fitzpaine (1.24 miles)	179
Langaller (1.39 miles)	164
Monkton Heathfield (0.88 miles)	157
Holway (1.24 miles)	74
Ruishton (1.39 miles)	31

Where are the most violent places near Halcon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halcon	348
Taunton	190
Rowbarton	184
Goosenford	135
Bathpool	123
Langaller	91
Cheddon Fitzpaine	73
Monkton Heathfield	54
Holway	29
Ruishton	7

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

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 Halcon 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 Halcon compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Halcon and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Halcon is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Victoria	81
2	Priorswood	74
3	Halcon & Lane	73
4	North Town	66
5	West Monkton & Cheddon Fitzpaine	56
6	Blackbrook & Holway	55
7	Wellsprings & Rowbarton	55
8	Vivary	51
9	Wilton & Sherford	30
10	North Curry & Ruishton	28
11	Manor & Tangier	26

Which road in Halcon has the highest level of crime?

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