Crime Statistics for Lower Milton, Mendip, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Milton in August 2024. There were a total of 33 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lower Milton, 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 Crime18
Anti Social Behaviour7
Public Order5
Burglary2
Other Theft1
All Crime33

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 Lower Milton. 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 Lower Milton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Keward (1.96 miles)33
Lower Milton24
Burcott (1.39 miles)7
Green Ore (3.1 miles)6
Polsham (3.34 miles)2
Dulcote (2.63 miles)1
Old Ditch (2.24 miles)1
Holly Brook (1.96 miles)0
Callow Hill (2.63 miles)0
Castle (2.63 miles)0

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Where are the most violent places near Lower Milton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Lower Milton18
Keward10
Burcott4
Green Ore2
Dulcote1
Old Ditch1
Polsham0
Holly Brook0
Callow Hill0
Castle0

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

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 Lower Milton 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 Lower Milton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Milton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Milton is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Glastonbury St Edmund's79
2Glastonbury St John's57
3Wells Central57
4Wells St Cuthbert's56
5Cheddar and Shipham38
6Croscombe and Pilton33
7Wookey and St Cuthbert Out West24
8St Cuthbert Out North19
9Wells St Thomas'19
10Wedmore and Mark12

Which road in Lower Milton has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Lower Milton with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around A371.

Last updated: August 2024
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