Crime Statistics for Pen Mill, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pen Mill in August 2024. There were a total of 298 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 Pen Mill, 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	100
Anti Social Behaviour	53
Shoplifting	41
Public Order	40
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Theft	19
Burglary	8
Possession Of Weapons	6
Drugs	4
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	298

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 Pen Mill. 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 Pen Mill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pen Mill	298
Hollands (0.88 miles)	258
Up Mudford (1.39 miles)	72
Alvington (2.56 miles)	32
Holywell (3.1 miles)	9
Stoford (1.86 miles)	7
Barwick (1.86 miles)	6
Gore (2.24 miles)	1
Nether Compton (1.96 miles)	0
Stallen (2.48 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Pen Mill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hollands	181
Pen Mill	100
Up Mudford	32
Alvington	10
Holywell	6
Stoford	4
Barwick	1
Gore	1
Nether Compton	0
Stallen	0

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

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 Pen Mill 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 Pen Mill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pen Mill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Pen Mill have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Sherborne Rural.

#	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	Northstone, Ivelchester & St Michael's	23
10	Parrett	16
11	Sherborne Rural	6

Which road in Pen Mill has the highest level of crime?

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