Crime Statistics for North Petherton, Sedgemoor, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for North Petherton in August 2024. There were a total of 34 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 North Petherton, 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	13
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Public Order	4
Burglary	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Theft	2
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	34

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 North Petherton. 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 North Petherton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hamp (1.96 miles)	1034
Bridgwater and Taunton Canal (2.4 miles)	534
Dunwear (1.76 miles)	75
North Petherton	34
Compass	21
Durleigh (2.24 miles)	11
Fordgate (1.96 miles)	9
Moorland (Northmoor Green) (2.56 miles)	9
Andersea (2.48 miles)	7
Rhode (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near North Petherton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hamp	409
Bridgwater and Taunton Canal	209
Dunwear	39
North Petherton	13
Compass	12
Durleigh	8
Fordgate	5
Moorland (Northmoor Green)	5
Andersea	0
Rhode	0

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

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 North Petherton 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 North Petherton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to North Petherton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in North Petherton have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Bridgwater Westover.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bridgwater Westover	80
2	Bridgwater Eastover	72
3	Bridgwater Hamp	70
4	Bridgwater Dunwear	63
5	Bridgwater Wyndham	56
6	Bridgwater Victoria	50
7	Bridgwater Fairfax	49
8	North Petherton	46
9	Creech St Michael	35
10	King's Isle	33
11	Cannington and Wembdon	29

Which road in North Petherton has the highest level of crime?

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