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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Morton in October 2024. There were a total of 137 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 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	49
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Public Order	14
Burglary	8
Other Theft	6
Shoplifting	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	137

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 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	136
Morton (0.62 miles)	126
Newton (0.62 miles)	60
Crossways (0.88 miles)	54
Duckhole (0.62 miles)	32
Alveston (1.96 miles)	12
Alveston Down (2.24 miles)	12
Buckover (1.39 miles)	7
Milbury Heath (1.39 miles)	7
Oldbury Naite (1.76 miles)	3

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
Morton	54
Lower Morton	49
Newton	34
Duckhole	22
Crossways	13
Buckover	5
Milbury Heath	5
Alveston	4
Alveston Down	4
Oldbury Naite	1

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.