Crime Statistics for Ruishton, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ruishton in October 2024. There were a total of 46 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ruishton, 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	20
Public Order	12
Other Crime	5
Other Theft	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
All Crime	46

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halcon (1.39 miles)	527
Monkton Heathfield (1.39 miles)	219
Bathpool (1.39 miles)	150
Holway (1.39 miles)	70
Langaller (1.24 miles)	68
Ruishton	46
Creech St Michael (0.88 miles)	17
Ham (1.39 miles)	16
Henlade (0.62 miles)	3
Stoke St Mary (1.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Ruishton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halcon	185
Monkton Heathfield	104
Bathpool	58
Holway	36
Langaller	26
Ruishton	20
Creech St Michael	10
Ham	10
Henlade	3
Stoke St Mary	2

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

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 Ruishton 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 Ruishton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Victoria	81
2	Priorswood	74
3	Halcon & Lane	73
4	North Town	66
5	West Monkton & Cheddon Fitzpaine	56
6	Blackbrook & Holway	55
7	Vivary	51
8	Creech St Michael	35
9	Wilton & Sherford	30
10	North Curry & Ruishton	28
11	Manor & Tangier	26

Which road in Ruishton has the highest level of crime?

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