Crime Statistics for Shelvin, Devon, 2024

Crime statistics for Shelvin, Shelvin

There were a total of 21 street level crime incidents in Shelvin in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Public Order6
Other Theft6
Drugs3
Shoplifting2
Criminal Damage Arson1
Theft From The Person1
Possession Of Weapons1
Violent Crime1
All Crime21

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shelvin21
Beacon (0.88 miles)21
Monkton (1.39 miles)21
Combe Raleigh (1.39 miles)0
Hamlet (3.34 miles)0
Dunkeswell (2.24 miles)0
Awliscombe (2.63 miles)0
Crook (1.24 miles)0
Littletown (3.11 miles)0
Honiton (2.48 miles)0

6.39%
of Honiton St Paul's residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Shelvin?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Shelvin1
Beacon1
Monkton1
Combe Raleigh0
Hamlet0
Dunkeswell0
Awliscombe0
Crook0
Littletown0
Honiton0

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

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 Shelvin 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 Shelvin compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shelvin and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Shelvin is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Hatch & Blackdown32
2Blackdown & Tatworth23
3Honiton St Paul's22
4Sidmouth Rural18
5Honiton St Michael's12
6Coly Valley9
7Whimple & Rockbeare8
8Upper Culm6
9Dunkeswell & Otterhead5
10Tale Vale4
11Feniton3

Which road in Shelvin has the highest level of crime?

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

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