Wells ward · Somerset. Every figure carries its own date.
Boundary: May 2026. Census and crime records have different dates and purposes.
What makes this ward different?
People aged 16+ with a degree or equivalent: 37.7% here, compared with 30.5% across Somerset (7.2 percentage points higher).
Qualifications show local skills, not whether people have secure jobs or use those skills at work.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
People aged 65 or over: 30.8% here, compared with 24.8% across Somerset (5.9 percentage points higher).
Age helps locate demand for accessible homes, transport and support. Being older does not itself mean someone needs care.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
People aged 16+ with no qualifications: 14.7% here, compared with 17.1% across Somerset (2.3 percentage points lower).
Formal qualifications are only one part of someone's skills. Training decisions also need current vacancies, employment and residents' experience.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
Police-recorded locations for Wells ward. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
848 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 885 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
Wells ward · mapped crimes
Reviewed figures: September 2024 to August 2026. This reviewed record covers fewer than 30 years, so the chart opens on all of it.
Shown on this chart: 77 mapped crimes in September 2024; 52 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · Wells
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
77
14
October 2024
79
12
November 2024
97
4
December 2024
72
4
January 2025
61
5
February 2025
56
8
March 2025
60
12
April 2025
77
17
May 2025
68
14
June 2025
67
14
July 2025
70
8
August 2025
101
17
September 2025
50
5
October 2025
66
14
November 2025
96
12
December 2025
90
11
January 2026
90
8
February 2026
58
10
March 2026
76
15
April 2026
72
8
May 2026
50
9
June 2026
75
24
July 2026
73
16
August 2026
52
8
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · Wells
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
372
shoplifting
138
public order
102
criminal damage arson
67
other theft
42
burglary
38
robbery
24
vehicle crime
20
other crime
17
drugs
12
possession of weapons
9
bicycle theft
5
theft from the person
2
What these numbers include
Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.
Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and records without usable locations are excluded.
Do not compare directly with Scottish council-level recorded crime totals.
These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.
Avon and Somerset Constabulary: Due to a change in IT systems there are known issues with crime and outcome data since October 2015 as latitude and longitude information is missing from approximately 2000 crimes each month. The force will be working to rectify this and provide the missing data over the coming months.
Missing ward-months invalidate totals and changes. Busy centres attract visitors, so residential population is not a measure of the number of people exposed.
