Total Crime Rate
99.4 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
61.4 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Huish Close area has the 25th highest crime rate of 54 local areas in Burnham on Sea North , and the 468th highest crime rate of 1,847 local areas in Somerset .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Huish Close (TA9 3HF) in the last 12 months was 99.4 per 1,000 residents and was 37.8% higher than the Burnham on Sea North average (72.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 19 offences recorded. The least common crime was Criminal damage and arson with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Possession of weapons ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 21 (≈ 61.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -41.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -39.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Huish Close (TA9 3HF), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Burnham Road, where police recorded 54 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Gulliford Close (39 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Highbridge & Burnham South| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Talbot Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Cuthbert Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tanning Drive | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Burnham Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Burnham Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Burnham Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Burnham Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Burnham Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tanning Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cuthbert Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Morland Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Lockyer Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Cuthbert Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Smith Way | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Gulliford Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Burnham Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Burnham Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gulliford Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gulliford Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gulliford Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gulliford Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Gulliford Close | Under investigation |
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