Crime Statistics for Croyde, Devon, 2024

Crime statistics for Croyde, Croyde

There were a total of 5 street level crime incidents in Croyde in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Vehicle Crime2
Other Theft1
Burglary1
Violent Crime1
All Crime5

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 Croyde. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Croyde

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cross (0.62 miles)7
Croyde5
Caen (3.9 miles)5
Croyde Bay (0.62 miles)4
Boode (3.77 miles)3
Georgeham (1.24 miles)3
Lobb (2.24 miles)0
Mortehoe (3.78 miles)0
Morte Point (3.89 miles)0
Nethercott (2.48 miles)0

6.14%
of Mortehoe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Croyde?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Caen3
Cross2
Croyde1
Boode1
Georgeham1
Croyde Bay0
Lobb0
Mortehoe0
Morte Point0
Nethercott0

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

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 Croyde 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 Croyde compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ilfracombe West29
2Westward Ho!27
3Marwood23
4Instow18
5Northam14
6Appledore13
7Mortehoe12
8Braunton East7
9Braunton West & Georgeham7
10Fremington4
11Heanton Punchardon3

Which road in Croyde has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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