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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Taunton in October 2024. There were a total of 593 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Taunton, 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	246
Shoplifting	132
Public Order	68
Anti Social Behaviour	45
Other Theft	35
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Burglary	11
Robbery	9
Other Crime	8
Vehicle Crime	7
Drugs	4
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	593

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 Taunton. 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 Taunton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halcon (0.88 miles)	527
Rowbarton (0.88 miles)	472
Frieze Hill (1.39 miles)	457
Taunton	383
Monkton Heathfield (1.76 miles)	219
Sherford (0.88 miles)	110
Holway (0.88 miles)	70
Shoreditch (1.39 miles)	17
Trull (1.75 miles)	14
Dowslands (1.24 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Taunton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Taunton	246
Frieze Hill	194
Halcon	185
Rowbarton	171
Monkton Heathfield	104
Sherford	43
Holway	36
Shoreditch	12
Dowslands	6
Trull	5

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

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 Taunton 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 Taunton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Taunton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Taunton is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Victoria	81
2	Priorswood	74
3	Halcon & Lane	73
4	North Town	66
5	Blackbrook & Holway	55
6	Wellsprings & Rowbarton	55
7	Vivary	51
8	Wilton & Sherford	30
9	Trull, Pitminster & Corfe	29
10	Manor & Tangier	26
11	Comeytrowe & Bishop's Hull	15

Which road in Taunton has the highest level of crime?

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