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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holway in August 2024. There were a total of 74 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Holway, 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	29
Public Order	16
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Shoplifting	7
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Robbery	3
Burglary	2
Other Crime	2
Other Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	74

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 Holway. 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 Holway

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halcon (1.24 miles)	1117
Taunton (0.88 miles)	492
Sherford (1.24 miles)	88
Holway	74
Ruishton (1.39 miles)	31
Shoreditch (0.62 miles)	16
Dowslands (0.88 miles)	13
Stoke St Mary (1.39 miles)	8
Henlade (1.24 miles)	6
Kibbear (1.75 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Holway?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halcon	348
Taunton	190
Sherford	29
Holway	29
Ruishton	7
Shoreditch	7
Dowslands	5
Stoke St Mary	3
Henlade	1
Kibbear	0

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

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 Holway 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 Holway compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Holway and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Holway is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Victoria	81
2	Priorswood	74
3	Halcon & Lane	73
4	West Monkton & Cheddon Fitzpaine	56
5	Blackbrook & Holway	55
6	Vivary	51
7	Wilton & Sherford	30
8	Trull, Pitminster & Corfe	29
9	North Curry & Ruishton	28
10	Manor & Tangier	26
11	Comeytrowe & Bishop's Hull	15

Which road in Holway has the highest level of crime?

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