Crime Statistics for Cranborne, Dorset, 2024

Crime statistics for Cranborne, Cranborne

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in January 2024. The largest category was Other Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Crime1
All Crime1

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Cranborne. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Cranborne

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Daggons (3.16 miles)3
Boveridge (0.88 miles)2
Allen (3.25 miles)2
Cranborne1
Damerham (3.34 miles)1
South End (3.34 miles)1
Cripplestyle (2.56 miles)1
Gotham (2.24 miles)0
Lower Holwell (1.39 miles)0
Knowlton (2.63 miles)0

4.33%
of Cranborne & Alderholt residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cranborne?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Allen2
Daggons1
Boveridge1
Damerham1
South End1
Cranborne0
Cripplestyle0
Gotham0
Lower Holwell0
Knowlton0

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

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 Cranborne 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 Cranborne compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Forest North West63
2Ringwood South55
3Fordingbridge41
4Ringwood North36
5West Moors & Three Legged Cross25
6Commons25
7Cranborne Chase17
8Colehill & Wimborne Minster East14
9Verwood11
10Cranborne & Alderholt11
11Ferndown North8

Which road in Cranborne has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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