Crime Statistics for Odcombe, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Odcombe in August 2024. There were a total of 6 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Violent Crime	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	6

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 Odcombe. 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 Odcombe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alvington (1.24 miles)	32
Stoke sub Hamdon (2.24 miles)	9
Holywell (1.75 miles)	9
Brympton D’Evercy (0.62 miles)	6
Odcombe	6
Hardington Moor (1.96 miles)	6
Lower Odcombe (0.62 miles)	5
Norton Sub Hamdon (1.86 miles)	4
Little Norton (1.86 miles)	4
Montacute (0.88 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Odcombe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alvington	10
Stoke sub Hamdon	6
Holywell	6
Hardington Moor	5
Lower Odcombe	4
Odcombe	2
Norton Sub Hamdon	2
Little Norton	2
Montacute	1
Brympton D’Evercy	0

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

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 Odcombe 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 Odcombe compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Yeovil Lyde	79
2	Yeovil College	71
3	Coker	53
4	Yeovil Summerlands	52
5	Yeovil Westland	45
6	Yeovil Without	40
7	Hamdon	35
8	Brympton	34
9	Martock	32
10	Northstone, Ivelchester & St Michael's	23
11	Parrett	16

Which road in Odcombe has the highest level of crime?

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