Crime Statistics for Spring Gardens, Mendip, Somerset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Spring Gardens in August 2024. There were a total of 69 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 Spring Gardens, 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	24
Public Order	13
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Burglary	5
Other Theft	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	69

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 Spring Gardens. 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 Spring Gardens

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fromefield (1.39 miles)	201
Innox Hill (0.62 miles)	148
Keyford (1.39 miles)	134
Critchill (1.24 miles)	69
Spring Gardens	69
Oldford (1.39 miles)	33
Egford (0.88 miles)	12
Hapsford (0.62 miles)	8
Bedlam (0.62 miles)	4
Great Elm (1.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Spring Gardens?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Keyford	79
Fromefield	63
Innox Hill	48
Critchill	26
Spring Gardens	24
Egford	11
Oldford	9
Hapsford	6
Bedlam	3
Great Elm	0

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

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 Spring Gardens 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 Spring Gardens compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Frome Oakfield	69
2	Frome Market	69
3	Frome Keyford	62
4	Frome Park	57
5	Beckington and Selwood	43
6	Ammerdown	33
7	Ethandune	32
8	Frome College	32
9	Rode and Norton St Philip	32
10	Frome Berkley Down	29

Which road in Spring Gardens has the highest level of crime?

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