Crime Statistics for Kenn, Kingston Seymour, North Somerset, 2024

There were a total of 13 street level crime incidents in Kenn in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	3
Violent Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Robbery	1
Shoplifting	1
Public Order	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	13

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walton St Mary (1.86 miles)	67
Horsecastle (1.96 miles)	36
Claverham (2.63 miles)	27
Kenn	13
Walton-in-Gordano (2.56 miles)	13
Norton’s Wood (2.24 miles)	9
Kenn Moor Gate (2.24 miles)	4
Tickenham (2.24 miles)	2
Hewish (3.17 miles)	2
Farley (3.17 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Kenn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walton St Mary	34
Horsecastle	15
Claverham	9
Norton’s Wood	4
Kenn	2
Walton-in-Gordano	2
Kenn Moor Gate	2
Tickenham	1
Hewish	1
Farley	0

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

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 Kenn 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 Kenn compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kenn and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Kenn have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Clevedon East.

#	Ward	Score
1	Clevedon East	41
2	Clevedon West	40
3	Wick St Lawrence & St Georges	35
4	Weston-super-Mare North Worle	30
5	Yatton	30
6	Clevedon Yeo	25
7	Nailsea West End	24
8	Nailsea Youngwood	24
9	Clevedon Walton	23
10	Nailsea Yeo	23
11	Clevedon South	22

Which road in Kenn has the highest level of crime?

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