Crime Statistics for Southdown, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, 2024

There were a total of 159 street level crime incidents in Southdown in February 2024. 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 Southdown, 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	61
Shoplifting	31
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Public Order	13
Other Theft	13
Burglary	9
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	159

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bath (0.88 miles)	429
Oldfield Park (0.62 miles)	245
South Twerton (0.62 miles)	245
Locksbrook (0.88 miles)	163
Twerton (0.88 miles)	163
Southdown	159
Fox Hill (1.39 miles)	68
Odd Down (0.62 miles)	63
Rush Hill (0.62 miles)	63
Englishcombe (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Southdown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bath	153
Oldfield Park	106
South Twerton	106
Locksbrook	70
Twerton	70
Southdown	61
Fox Hill	26
Odd Down	22
Rush Hill	22
Englishcombe	0

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

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 Southdown 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 Southdown compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Twerton	77
2	Kingsmead	66
3	Southdown	50
4	Walcot	47
5	Moorlands	45
6	Odd Down	45
7	Westmoreland	43
8	Newbridge	38
9	Oldfield Park	32
10	Widcombe & Lyncombe	29
11	Combe Down	25

Which road in Southdown has the highest level of crime?

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