Crime Statistics for Talbot Woods, Talbot Village, Bournemouth, 2024

There were a total of 294 street level crime incidents in Talbot Woods in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	70
Violent Crime	66
Vehicle Crime	48
Shoplifting	25
Other Theft	21
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Public Order	12
Burglary	12
Drugs	6
Bicycle Theft	5
Other Crime	3
Robbery	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	294

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 Talbot Woods. 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 Talbot Woods

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Springbourne (1.86 miles)	814
Bournemouth (0.88 miles)	627
Moordown (1.75 miles)	324
Talbot Woods	294
Wallisdown (1.39 miles)	255
Talbot Village (1.24 miles)	241
Ensbury Park (1.24 miles)	241
Turbary Common (1.76 miles)	226
Bourne Valley (0.88 miles)	195
Talbot Heath (0.88 miles)	195

Where are the most violent places near Talbot Woods?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Springbourne	230
Bournemouth	169
Wallisdown	104
Moordown	95
Talbot Village	88
Ensbury Park	88
Turbary Common	88
Bourne Valley	72
Talbot Heath	72
Talbot Woods	66

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

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 Talbot Woods 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 Talbot Woods compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Talbot Woods and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Talbot Woods is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bournemouth Central	85
2	East Cliff & Springbourne	84
3	Winton East	62
4	Newtown & Heatherlands	55
5	Westbourne & West Cliff	54
6	Talbot & Branksome Woods	53
7	Wallisdown & Winton West	45
8	Redhill & Northbourne	37
9	Penn Hill	36
10	Parkstone	32
11	Canford Cliffs	31

Which road in Talbot Woods has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Talbot Woods with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Saint Michael's Road.