Crime Statistics for Lower Morton, Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Morton in September 2024. There were a total of 188 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 Lower Morton, 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	80
Public Order	28
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Shoplifting	14
Other Theft	10
Burglary	10
Other Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	188

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Morton	179
Morton (0.62 miles)	176
Crossways (0.88 miles)	82
Duckhole (0.62 miles)	49
Newton (0.62 miles)	49
Alveston (1.96 miles)	27
Milbury Heath (1.39 miles)	26
Buckover (1.39 miles)	13
Alveston Down (2.24 miles)	13
Oldbury Naite (1.76 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Lower Morton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Morton	80
Morton	80
Crossways	34
Duckhole	23
Newton	23
Milbury Heath	18
Alveston	13
Alveston Down	6
Buckover	5
Oldbury Naite	0

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

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 Lower Morton 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 Lower Morton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Morton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Morton is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Patchway Coniston	55
2	Thornbury	37
3	Charfield	34
4	Severn Vale	33
5	Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge	30
6	Frampton Cotterell	30
7	Bradley Stoke South	25
8	Stoke Gifford	24
9	Bradley Stoke North	21
10	Tidenham	9
11	St. Briavels	8

Which road in Lower Morton has the highest level of crime?

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