Crime Statistics for Forston, Charlton Down, Dorset, 2024

Crime statistics for Forston, Charlton Down

There were a total of 4 street level crime incidents in Forston in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft2
Vehicle Crime1
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime4

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 Forston. 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 Forston

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Dorchester (3.34 miles)121
Frome (3.51 miles)95
Charminster (2.24 miles)42
Stinsford (3.97 miles)22
Forston4
Stratton (1.39 miles)3
Maiden Newton (4.51 miles)2
Up Cerne (4.39 miles)1
Higher Bockhampton (4.16 miles)0
Grimstone (1.39 miles)0

5.6%
of Charminster St Mary's residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Forston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Dorchester45
Frome30
Charminster17
Stinsford7
Forston0
Stratton0
Maiden Newton0
Up Cerne0
Higher Bockhampton0
Grimstone0

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

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 Forston 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 Forston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Forston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Forston is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Dorchester Poundbury45
2Dorchester West36
3Littlemoor & Preston36
4Chesil Bank30
5Dorchester East28
6Crossways20
7Winterborne & Broadmayne17
8Eggardon17
9Charminster St Mary's15
10Upwey & Broadwey13
11Chalk Valleys13

Which road in Forston has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Forston with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around A35.

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