Crime Statistics for Plympton, Devon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Plympton in August 2024. There were a total of 69 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour25
Violent Crime17
Shoplifting9
Criminal Damage Arson8
Other Theft4
Public Order4
Vehicle Crime1
Other Crime1
All Crime69

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Laira (1.96 miles)293
Eggbuckland (1.96 miles)267
Efford (1.86 miles)218
Longbridge (1.39 miles)142
Billacombe (1.39 miles)121
Hemerdon (1.96 miles)85
Plympton69
Underwood (0.62 miles)23
Langage (2.24 miles)3
Blackpool (2.24 miles)2

3.67%
of Plympton Erle residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Plympton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Eggbuckland131
Efford106
Laira92
Longbridge58
Billacombe49
Hemerdon41
Plympton17
Underwood7
Blackpool1
Langage0

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

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 Plympton 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 Plympton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Sutton and Mount Gould75
2Efford and Lipson64
3Compton42
4Eggbuckland28
5Plymstock Radford24
6Moor View24
7Plympton Erle15
8Plymstock Dunstone10
9Plympton Chaddlewood9
10Plympton St Mary9
11Wembury & Brixton7

Which road in Plympton has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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