Crime Statistics for Lower Stratton, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Stratton in September 2024. There were a total of 14 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft8
Violent Crime4
Vehicle Crime2
All Crime14

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lower Stratton. 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 Stratton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Petherton (0.88 miles)27
Lower Stratton17
Moor (1.39 miles)14
Watergore (0.62 miles)12
Bower Hinton (1.96 miles)11
Compton Durville (2.24 miles)2
Stoke sub Hamdon (2.24 miles)2
Norton Sub Hamdon (1.86 miles)0
Little Norton (1.86 miles)0
Chiselborough (1.39 miles)0

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Stratton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Petherton16
Moor10
Bower Hinton7
Watergore5
Lower Stratton4
Compton Durville2
Stoke sub Hamdon1
Norton Sub Hamdon0
Little Norton0
Chiselborough0

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

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 Stratton 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 Stratton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Stratton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Stratton is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Coker53
2Hamdon35
3Crewkerne35
4Brympton34
5Ilminster32
6Martock32
7South Petherton26
8Eggwood23
9Burrow Hill20
10Windwhistle18
11Parrett16

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

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

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