Crime Statistics for Fairmile, Burton, Dorset, 2024

There were a total of 70 street level crime incidents in Fairmile in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Fairmile, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	24
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Other Theft	6
Public Order	6
Burglary	4
Shoplifting	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	70

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Iford (1.39 miles)	185
Stour (1.13 miles)	138
Tuckton (1.39 miles)	138
Christchurch (1.24 miles)	100
Boscombe (1.34 miles)	95
Jumpers Common (0.62 miles)	94
Southbourne (1.36 miles)	92
Blackwater (1.39 miles)	83
Fairmile	70
South Bockhampton (1.39 miles)	30

Where are the most violent places near Fairmile?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Iford	53
Stour	47
Tuckton	38
Blackwater	28
Jumpers Common	25
Christchurch	24
Fairmile	24
Boscombe	22
Southbourne	21
South Bockhampton	17

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

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 Fairmile 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 Fairmile compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Boscombe West	82
2	Boscombe East & Pokesdown	76
3	Queen's Park	61
4	Ringwood East and Sopley	55
5	West Southbourne	47
6	Littledown & Ilford	46
7	Burton & Grange	42
8	Christchurch Town	38
9	East Southbourne & Tuckton	25
10	Mudeford, Stanpit & West Highcliffe	17
11	Highcliffe & Walkford	7

Which road in Fairmile has the highest level of crime?

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