Crime Statistics for Farnham, New Town, Dorset, 2024

Crime statistics for Farnham, New Town

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

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft1
All Crime1

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 Farnham. 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 Farnham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Pimperne (4.85 miles)14
Compton Abbas (5.3 miles)4
Blandford Camp (4.97 miles)3
Tarrant Gunville (2.63 miles)1
Farnham1
Allen (5.18 miles)0
Charlton (5.34 miles)0
Tollard Farnham (0.62 miles)0
Tollard Royal (1.39 miles)0
Knowlton (5.34 miles)0

13.47%
of Cranborne Chase residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Farnham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Pimperne5
Compton Abbas3
Blandford Camp3
Tarrant Gunville1
Farnham0
Allen0
Charlton0
Tollard Farnham0
Tollard Royal0
Knowlton0

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

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 Farnham 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 Farnham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Farnham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Farnham is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Wimborne Minster44
2Shaftesbury Town28
3Tisbury27
4Beacon26
5Blandford25
6Cranborne Chase17
7Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants15
8Colehill & Wimborne Minster East14
9Sturminster Newton12
10Verwood11
11Cranborne & Alderholt11

Which road in Farnham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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