Crime Statistics for Axbridge, Sedgemoor, Somerset, 2024

Is Axbridge rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 10 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Axbridge, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime4
Criminal Damage Arson3
Possession Of Weapons1
Burglary1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime10

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cheddar (1.39 miles)29
Sidcot (1.96 miles)17
Axbridge10
Shipham (1.96 miles)6
Cheddar Reservoir (0.84 miles)5
Hale Coombe (1.39 miles)5
Lower Weare (1.96 miles)1
Sparrow Hill (1.76 miles)1
Rackley (2.48 miles)1
Weare (1.76 miles)1

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



Where are the most violent places near Axbridge?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cheddar18
Sidcot4
Axbridge4
Cheddar Reservoir4
Hale Coombe2
Shipham1
Lower Weare0
Sparrow Hill0
Rackley0
Weare0

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

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 Axbridge 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 Axbridge compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Axbridge and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Axbridge is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Weston-super-Mare Winterstoke55
2Congresbury & Puxton45
3Cheddar and Shipham38
4Hutton & Locking36
5Banwell & Winscombe34
6Wrington33
7Knoll29
8Axevale22
9Blagdon & Churchill16
10Wedmore and Mark12

Which road in Axbridge has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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